This year’s Finále Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary, offering once again full immersion in Czech film. So if you have a cinephile interest in the country that brought us Miloš Forman, Věra Chytilová, Jiří Menzel and Jan Švankmajer, the city of Plzeň is the place to be next week!
Animated drama Alois Nebel competes for this year’s Golden Kingfisher Award
The Feature Film Competition includes Martin Šulík’s Gypsy, coming straight from last year’s Karlovy Vary award list, or A Night too (…)
♦ Introduction
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Sunday 22 April 2012Finále Festival Plzeň 2012
By Andreea Dobre (Romania), 22 April 2012 | Finale Plzeň 2011 |Translations: [en]
How We Played Revolution (Lithuania, 2011)
By Jorė Janavičiūtė (Lithuania), 22 April 2012 | Kino pavasaris 2012 |Translations: [en]
The saying that jeans and rock destroyed the Soviet Union perfectly describes the main idea of Lithuanian documentary “How We Played Revolution”. These are the words said by Václav Havel, former president of Czech Republic, and it is also recalled in the film.
Giedrė Žičkytė, the director of documentary, chose a perspective of Lithuanian rock band “Antis” (what means “Duck”) to construct a story about the events during perestroika when Lithuanians were peacefully fighting for the independence of their (…)
Giedrė Žičkytė, the director of documentary, chose a perspective of Lithuanian rock band “Antis” (what means “Duck”) to construct a story about the events during perestroika when Lithuanians were peacefully fighting for the independence of their (…)
Tuesday 10 April 2012Interview with Greg Zglinski
By Jorė Janavičiūtė (Lithuania), 10 April 2012 | Kino pavasaris 2012 |Translations: [en]
The CV of Greg Zglinski is really diverse – he is not only a film director and screenwriter, but also a film producer, cinematographer, film, sound editor and film score composer. He has played guitar and bass in several rock bands too. He was born in 1968 in Warsaw, Poland, but he brought up in Switzerland. Later G. Zglinski studied in the directing department of the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School in Lodz and was a student of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
We come to see him due (…)
We come to see him due (…)
Tuesday 3 April 2012Interview with Pavel Kostomarov
By Jorė Janavičiūtė (Lithuania), 3 April 2012 | Kino pavasaris 2012 |Translations: [en]
Pavel Kostomarov – Russian documentary director and cinematographer who has worked with such directors as Sergey Loznitsa (Landscape, 2003) and Alexey Popogrebsky (How I Ended This Summer, 2010). He has received a number of awards including a Silver Berlin Bear for his camera work in Popogrebsky`s film.
His latest documentary “I Love You” co-directed with Alexander Rastorguev is screened in the festival this year. Directors were in search for a new film language, so they applied a kind of (…)
His latest documentary “I Love You” co-directed with Alexander Rastorguev is screened in the festival this year. Directors were in search for a new film language, so they applied a kind of (…)
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