As we reach the end of One World Bratislava, talk in the Nisimazine office is turning to summarising the highlights of the week and the range of important issues tackled. From Burmese repression to the Arab Spring, from climate change to the fight for net neutrality – the programme has certainly offered a broad snapshot of current affairs.
Meanwhile, outside of the workshop bubble, it’s been hard not to notice a number of rapidly paced and mostly alarming developments going on in the world (…)
♦ 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 7 December 2011Editorial Nisimazine Jeden Svet #6
By Jude Lister (UK), 7 December 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Pablo Giorgelli - Director of Las Acacias
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 7 December 2011 | Cannes 2011 |Translations: [en]
Las Acacias emerged from the shy corners of Critic’s Week in the last Cannes Film Festival and was my own personal treasure from the two-week film marathon. First-time Argentinian director Pablo Giorgelli silently – but masterfully – captures the subtle connections which unravel between a lonely truck driver and his passenger during their road trip across South America.
This little gem won the Camera d’Or in Cannes and received the Sutherland Award at the BFI London Film Festival. An (…)
This little gem won the Camera d’Or in Cannes and received the Sutherland Award at the BFI London Film Festival. An (…)
Saturday 3 December 2011The Wolf Has Howled
By Getter Trumsi (Estonia), 3 December 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Christmas comes early for movie-enthusiasts who find exciting presents under the tree during the Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF). Similar to kids, the film-fanatics want different things, for instance new experiences and everything from documentaries to feature films, from North-America to Asia. Thus, PÖFF is organized perfectly just to benefit everybody with a variety of choices and opportunities to satisfy their cinematic-needs.
In 2011 PÖFF and the wolf (the symbol of the festival) (…)
In 2011 PÖFF and the wolf (the symbol of the festival) (…)
Editorial Nisimazine Jeden Svet #3
By Lydia Castellano (France), 3 December 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en] [fr]
Here we are in beautiful but freezing Bratislava, with high expectations for the week becoming real facts day by day. The Jeden Svet Festival is full of films to watch, people to meet and places to visit, things to write, to say, and to dream about… and we want to do it all at the same time.
Is it possible? Well, of course not. But as adept multi-taskers in a hyperconnected era, we will try our best, in sickness and in health. The rhythm is getting quicker and quicker as days go by, and (…)
Is it possible? Well, of course not. But as adept multi-taskers in a hyperconnected era, we will try our best, in sickness and in health. The rhythm is getting quicker and quicker as days go by, and (…)
Editorial Nisimazine Jeden Svet #5
By Johannes Bennke (Germany), 3 December 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [de] [en]
Violated human rights, catastrophes, dictatorships, ecology and revolution - after four days of the festival a panorama of topics has unfolded, which the One World Festival rallies around and which is kept under the label of activist cinema. It’s a label that sets the relation between the filmmaker and the engagement in a special light.
If one tries carefully to give an overview of the films, it seems that the least surprising request is to show injustice and put the persons responsible in (…)
If one tries carefully to give an overview of the films, it seems that the least surprising request is to show injustice and put the persons responsible in (…)
Friday 2 December 2011Editorial Nisimazine Jeden Svet #4
By Martin Kudláč (Slovakia), 2 December 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
You’ve gotta fight… for your right… na informácie. Takto presne to neznie v známej pesničke z osemdesiatych rokov, ale zámena slova ,,párty” za ,,informácie” bola úmyselná. V demokratických krajinách by ste nemali bojovať za svoje práva. Mať práva by malo byť prirodzené, no nie vždy to tak je. Globálne médiá sa prehlásili za moderné orákulum. Boli všade, sú všade, vedia všetko. Ako je možné, že my nevieme všetko? Aj keď strávime denne dve hodiny sledovaním správ, v ktorých je kvantum informácií, stále nám chýba (…)
Editorial
By Albina Griniūtė (Lithuania), 2 December 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
You know how it is: the film finishes, there is the director or somebody from the crew present – time for a short Q&A session. From this point on, different scenarios can develop: a) the audience sits quietly and lets the presenter do the talking; b) half of the audience stands up and leaves, the other half manages to come up with a few polite questions to break the uncomfortable silence; c) the audience bursts into applause and keeps the filmmaker talking for the next half hour until the (…)
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