At the beginning of the week our Nisimazine team observed how the festivaliers gradually populated the little town of Alba one by one. Tomorrow they will head home again, contented, their heads filled with moving images.
On this last festival day some of us are already speculating about next year’s edition, and the first bets are made on the opening film. Last year Alba di Gloria (1939) got selected, this year Alba Tragica (1939). Maybe next year it will be… Ritorno all’alba (1938)? (…)
♦ Introduction
This blog is a place for all contributors of Nisimazine to continue to write, photograph, make video and discuss cinema together after the workshops. An extension of the magazine, this is a free space to keep sharing new insights and experiences through reviews, essays, quotes, interviews and festival reports. You can join any conversation by posting comments. So…, let’s go !
Sunday 22 March 2009Editorial Nisimazine Alba 2009 #6
By Gerdien Smit (The Netherlands), 22 March 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Saturday 21 March 2009Editorial Nisimazine Alba 2009 #5
By Estela Cotes (Brazil), 21 March 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
When I was invited to be part of the Nisimazine team, just one week before AIFF started, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. At least the flight from Brazil was calmer than I could have planned, since two of the other Brazilian participants, João and Martha, turned out to be on the same plane. In Milan we met Ilkin, our video-blogger who had arrived from Turkey. That feeling of “ok, now I’m not in Brazil anymore” really started in Turin. With none of the four of us speaking Italian, we got lost (…)
Friday 20 March 2009Editorial Nisimazine Alba 2009 #4
By Agustin Mango (Argentina), 20 March 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Handing out copies of Nisimazine to the people standing in line at the Cineplex can turn out to be quite educational. Especially when a group of very nice old ladies are the first in line for an independent Iranian film by a first-time director with a story set in the Iranian-Iraqi border zone. That tells you something about the Alba Festival - apart from the obvious fact that Alba is a beautiful city, especially when bathed in the sunlight of a very near springtime - it tells you that (…)
Thursday 19 March 2009Editorial Nisimazine Alba 2009 #3
By Martha Lopes (Brazil), 19 March 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Being part of the Alba Festival’s 8th edition within this international Nisimazine workshop is to experience passions and bonds, this year’s eXistenZe theme. We share our passion for cinema, which means watching lots of films, discussing them, and writing about them. We constantly construct all kinds of bonds: with different types of touching films, with people from all over the world, and with other cultures. It’s even possible to strengthen our links with our own country and identity, since (…)
Wednesday 18 March 2009Editorial Nisimazine Alba 2009 #2
By Joao Candido Zacharias (Brazil), 18 March 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Sometimes, when you are a film critic, journalist or cinema industry insider, you reach a certain point where you have been to so many festivals that you start to feel they are all alike, that they have no particularities at all. This is a mistake as terrible as assuming that every film is the same, just because you have seen so many.
Getting to know a festival like this one happening in Alba right now only makes you feel surer that film festivals can be very unique. It is hard to find (…)
Getting to know a festival like this one happening in Alba right now only makes you feel surer that film festivals can be very unique. It is hard to find (…)
Tuesday 17 March 2009Editorial Nisimazine Alba 2009 #1
By Mark Racz (Romania), 17 March 2009 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
This year the Alba International Film Festival is following widespread festival trends by showing films from countries such as Iran and Thailand. As we could expect, these films deal with the climate of uncertainty and social dismay that resides in these countries. But be assured that the Europeans won’t be providing the entertainment - Duane Hopkins’s Better Things claims to be an uncompromising, downbeat look at rural British life.
However the AFF goes beyond the socio-political (something (…)
However the AFF goes beyond the socio-political (something (…)
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