Rotterdam Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Rotterdam Film Festival Awards
2009 Rotterdam Film Festival: Jan. 21-Feb. 1, 2009
 

Be Calm and Count to Seven (top photo), Ramtin Lavafipour’s feature-film début, chronicles the day-to-day struggles of a family in Iran’s southern islands whose chief source of income is smuggling. In Yang Ik-June’s Breathless (middle photo), a nasty extortionist (Yang himself) has his life drastically altered after meeting a determined schoolgirl. In Mahmut Fazil Coskun’s Istanbul-set Wrong Rosary (lower photo), a muezzin (the person who leads the call to the mosque’s Friday service) falls in love with his neighbor, who happens to be a Catholic nurse.
 

VPRO Tiger Awards: Be Calm and Count to Seven (Aram bash va [...]

by Massimo David | January 31, 2009   
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Rotterdam Film Festival 2009: Film Line-Up

The 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival runs Jan. 21-Feb. 1, 2009.
At West of Pluto (A l’ouest de Pluton), Henri Bernadet & Myriam Verreault, Canada
Be Calm and Count to Seven (Aram bash va ta haft beshmar), Ramtin Lavafipour, Iran
Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Babi buta yang ingin terbang), Edwin, Indonesia
Breathless (Ddongpari), Yang Ik-June, South Korea
Dark Harbour (Futoko), Naito Takatsugu, Japan

Dogging: A Love Story, Simon Ellis, U.K.
Floating in Memory (Liu li), Peng Tao, China
The Hungry Ghosts, Michael Imperioli, U.S.
No puedo vivir sin ti, Leon Dai, Taiwan

Schottentor, Caspar Pfaundler, Austria
Sois sage (Be Good), Juliette Garcias, France/ Denmark

The Strength of Water, Armagan Ballantyne, New Zealand/ Germany
Turistas (Tourists), Alicia Scherson, Chile
Wrong Rosary (Uzak ihtimal), Mahmut Fazil Coskun, Turkey

by Massimo David | January 7, 2009   
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Rotterdam 2008: Lucía Cedrón’s LAMB OF GOD

The 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which runs between Jan. 23-Feb. 3, has announced the 15 films vying for the 2008 VPRO Tiger Awards. All entries are first or second efforts. (See Rotterdam 2008 Film Line-Up.)
The Tiger Awards are worth 15,000 euros (US$22,070) for each of three winning features and 3,000 euros (US$4,414) for the short film awards.
The 2008 Rotterdam film festival will open with the world premiere of Lucía Cedrón’s narrative feature-film debut Cordero de Dios / Lamb of God (photo), about an elderly man kidnapped during Argentina’s catastrophic economic crisis of 2002. The man’s predicament forces his exiled daughter to return to Buenos Aires and confront her family’s past, which also involves a late [...]

by Andre Soares | January 10, 2008   
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Rotterdam 2008: Film Competition Line-Up

Rotterdam 2008: VPRO Tiger Awards Competition

The King of Ping Pong by Jens Jonsson

Eat, for This Is My Body (Mange, ceci est mon corps) by Michelange Quay (France/Haiti), European premiere
Flower in the Pocket by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia), European premiere
Fujian Blue (Jin bi hui huang) by Wemg Shou-ming (China), European premiere
Go with Peace Jamil (Ma salama Jamil) by Omar Shargawi (Denmark), world premiere
The King of Ping Pong (PingPong-Kingen) by Jens Jonsson (Sweden), European premiere
Lamb of God (Cordero de dios) by Lucía Cedrón (Argentina), world premiere, Opening Film
Las Meninas by Igor Podolchak & Dean Karr (Ukraine), world premiere
Shanghai Trance by David Verbeek (The Netherlands), world premiere
The Sky, the Earth and the Rain (El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia) by José Luis [...]

by Andre Soares | January 9, 2008   
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