♦ 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 !
Wednesday 30 November 2011
By Jens Geiger (Germany),
30 November 2011
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One of the crucial problems encountered while shooting political documentaries is a very practical one: political processes don’t tend to obey production schedules. The only thing a director can do sometimes is react – or not shoot at all. Occasionally this simple truth can be applied also to documentary film festivals. We could experience it yesterday during the opening ceremony of the One World Festival in Bratislava: the Slovakian Prime Minister Iveta Radičova was supposed to speak, but (…)
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By Getter Trumsi (Estonia),
30 November 2011
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As I wake up for my third day at the PÖFF I feel tired but excited at the same time. There is nothing better than to start the day off with talking about movies, then thinking about movies, and at the end of the day watching some movies.
Since I have seen many movies by now I am almost dreaming about the red seats in one of the cinemas in Tallinn, Solaris. So I was pretty thrilled to go there to see The Idiot (2011), an Estonian film which is based on Dostoyevsky’s novel by the same name. (…)
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Tuesday 29 November 2011
By Michaela Pňačeková (Slovakia),
29 November 2011
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The One World Festival connects two great passions of mine: cinema and activism. So it is amazing that Nisimazine is going to reflect on activist cinema at this festival for the first time. Human rights films have something extraordinary to them – the specific aim to change the world and fight injustice via cinematic means. Such cinema has to be intrinsically political and challenging. Thus at festivals such as this one, there is no glitter and very little ’business’; however, there is much (…)
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Monday 28 November 2011
By Helka Heinonen (Finland),
28 November 2011
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The word PÖFF is cool. It reminds of “pöh”, the Finnish expression used for mild mocking, which is transformed by the double “f” in the end into something witty, rather a surprising, playful dispatch with a positive accent. Something you could say to try to be a bit negative and actually ending up just being glad and daft in a cosy way. Like a lopsided smile in the darkness. _ _
We’re staying in the cellar of a house from the 15th century, basically inside the rocky hill of the old town. Some of (…)
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By Jorė Janavičiūtė (Lithuania),
28 November 2011
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When you first come to the festival you cannot dispose the feeling that you are lost. Complete chaos is everywhere. You do not know what to do, from where to start etc. This feeling can be described nearly as Paul`s from Scorsese`s After Hours when he cannot escape the district of Soho which has gone mad. This is especially true when you are experiencing the festival called the Black Nights in Tallinn, Estonia. This happened to me when I came to Nisimazine film criticism workshop during (…)
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