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(Fernando Vasquez (Portugal)) — 2013-06-07T07:52:42Z

May was another busy month for Nisimazine. As it happens every year, we took a large group of young writers to the Cannes film festival, to cover the Camera d´Or and the different Short Film competitions. The end result of the coverage can be read, heard and seen in many different formats. A full 90 pages long ebook was recently published and can be read here on our website (press link on the right). A radio program, where all the critics had a chance to talk about their favourite and least (…)

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(Fernando Vasquez (Portugal)) — 2013-03-14T10:28:33Z

March 2013 is promising to be yet another nonstop month for Nisimazine, after a quick recovery from the Berlinale blues the previous month.
Our teams keeps traveling around the continent in an endless search for what is new out there, with our usual and recognizable focus on young filmmakers.
Our first stop was at the famous and leading CARTOON MOVIE forum in France, where animation took center stage, reflecting, in many ways, the growth the format has been taking within the industry. (…)

Editorial January / February

() — 2013-02-13T12:50:34Z

The beginning of 2013 has been pretty much non-stop for NISIMAZINE. The year started with a short, yet intensive, stop at The Rotterdam International Film Festival, where we returned to cover the famous Tiger Shorts program, while also finding the time for a quick peek into the Spectrum Program as well. Six young writers from all over Europe dissected the productions on offer, one by one, meeting some of the most exciting and experimental young filmmakers around along the way. If you have (…)

Atmen (Breathing)

(Sebastiano Pucciarelli (Italy)) — 2012-10-09T11:01:51Z

Editorial Cannes 2012

(Celluloid Liberation Front) — 2012-05-23T20:13:23Z

As they cheered and hooted, they were far more confident than the film actors on display, who seemed ill at ease when they stepped from their cars, like celebrity criminals ferried to a mass trial by jury at the Palais, a full-scale cultural Nuremberg furnished with film clips of the atrocities they had helped to commit.
– JG Ballard in Super Cannes
Cannes is the ultimate cinematic event – a “monastic institution” in Bazin's words – insofar as it effectively accommodates the eccentricities of art (…)

Finále Festival Plzeň 2012

(Andreea Dobre (Romania)) — 2012-04-22T18:05:10Z

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 (…)

How We Played Revolution (Lithuania, 2011)

(Jorė Janavičiūtė (Lithuania)) — 2012-04-22T18:04:33Z

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 (…)

Inside (Yeralti)

(Andreea Dobre (Romania)) — 2012-04-21T06:10:34Z

Experienced director Zeki Demirkubuz hits the national competition at the Istanbul Film Festival with a quirky adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground. Inside (Yeraltı) starts off as a close-to-brilliant dark comedy on mediocrity and loneliness, but ends up getting caught up in a nebulla of philosophical ambitions.
Single, fourty-something Muharrem is a civil servant in the ”city of civil servants”, Ankara. Two old friends plan a festive dinner for the third, now an awarded (…)

The Delay (La Demora)

(Andreea Dobre (Romania)) — 2012-04-11T14:05:16Z

The Istanbul Film Festival has a section called From the World of Festivals – however, this seems to be an annex to the International Competition, which gathers 11 festival sweethearts of its own. One of the films that has a chance at the Golden Tulip award is The Delay (La Demora), a heartbreaking social drama from Uruguay that speaks openly about the tabu burden of caring for an elder.
Mária is a tired single mother in her forties, hardworking but underpaid. Her tiny apartment is crowded (…)

Lal gece (Night of Silence)

(Andreea Dobre (Romania)) — 2012-04-10T13:35:33Z

Few films have the gift of discussing tragic issues without becoming melodramatic, and Lal gece (Night of Silence) is definitely one of them. After receiving the Crystal Bear at this year's Berlinale, Reis Çelik's rural chamber piece was screened in the National Competition of the Istanbul Film Festival.
The film indulges in the colourful traditions of a village wedding before following a bride, face covered in a red veil, into the bridal chamber, as her mother warns her that she is here to (…)