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Staff 14Th Edition TIFF 2016 Staff 14th Edition TIFF 2016 Office Manager Photographer Jona Borova Moris Rama Sound Engineer Hospitality Armand Shehaj & Coordinator Jonida Lika PR Graphic Festival Director & Media Coordinator Designer Agron Domi Mira Tuci Kavalo Studio Selector & Programmer Video Design Florenc Papas & Program editor Webmaster Agron Domi Adi Guri Ergys Temali Staff 14th Edition TIFF 2016 Office Manager Photographer Jona Borova Moris Rama Sound Engineer Hospitality Armand Shehaj & Coordinator Jonida Lika PR Graphic Festival Director & Media Coordinator Designer Agron Domi Mira Tuci Kavalo Studio Selector & Programmer Video Design Florenc Papas & Program editor Webmaster Agron Domi Adi Guri Ergys Temali 2016 | Spain | 99’ Julieta Pedro ALMODÓVAR Awards After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded Official Selection daughter. at Cannes Film Festival 2016 Director Pedro Almodóvar Writers Pedro Almodóvar Alice Munro Although the seams may show on a It might be familiar territory for Cast Adriana Ugarte narrative level, and some may find it Almodóvar, but only a master of his Michelle Jenner over-cooked, this is a luxurious slide art could make it look so easy. SPECIAL SCREENING Rossy de Palma into female neurosis. 2016 | UK, France, Belgium | 100’ I, Daniel Blake Ken LOACH Awards A middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after injuring Winner of Palm d’Or at Cannes himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario. Film Festival 2016 Won Audience Award at Locarno International Film Festival 2016 Director: Ken Loach I, Daniel Blake is one of Loach’s finest The film is anchored by incisive Writer: Paul Laverty films, a drama of tender devastation that characterizations rich in integrity and Cast: Dave Johns tells its story with an unblinking neorealist heart, and by an urgent simplicity Hayley Squires simplicity that goes right back to the in its storytelling that’s surprisingly powerful. plainspoken purity of Vittorio De Sica. Sharon Percy SPECIAL SCREENING 2016 | Romania, France, Belgium | 128’ Graduation Cristian MUNGIU Awards A film about compromises and the implications of the parent’s role. Won Best Director at Cannes Film Festival 2016 Graduation is an intricate, deeply Graduation isn’t one of Mungiu’s intelligent film, and a bleak picture of a finest, but even a restrained, Director Cristian Mungiu state of national depression in Romania, emotionally measured work like this where the 90s generation hoped they Writer Cristian Mungiu is more interesting and provocative would have a chance to start again. Cast Adrian Titieni than many another director’s best There are superb performances from Maria-Victoria Dragus effort. Titien and Dragus. SPECIAL SCREENING Rares Andrici TIFF web 396 Festhome 46 288 shorts + 108 feature 43 shorts + 3 feature FilmFreeWay 236 FilmFestivalLife 43 184 shorts + 33 feature + 19 in Albanian 35 shorts + 8 feature WithoutABox 248 Distributor 226 100 shorts + 30 feature + 118 other 185 shorts + 41 feature Reelport 205 TOTALI 1,400 1.034 199 shorts + 6 Feature shorts 229 feature 137 others Evgeny Elsa Kaj MAYZEL DEMO VAN ZOELEN Evgeny Mayzel was born in 1973 in Elsa Demo is engaged with reports Kaj van Zoelen is Dutch film critic St-Petersburg. Lives in Moscow. and analysis on arts and culture in who graduated from the University of Russian writer, film critic, chief-editor Albanian daily media for more than Amsterdam with a degree in History of kinoart.ru - internet version of a decade. Author of the program and American Studies. He is co-editor “Iskusstvo Kino” (Film Art) - the only “Cultural Meetings” on ABC News; and co-founder of SalonIndien.nl and and the oldest monthly academic PhD candidate for literature studies, Frame.Land and a freelance writer FIPRESCI — Jury independent magazine in Russia Center of Albanological Studies. She for several Dutch websites including (Moscow). is co–writer of a feature screenplay in Filmtotaal.nl and the aforementioned. Member of the Russian Guild of film process. He was a member of the critic’s jury critics.Member of FIPRESCI. for the 2015 Red Tulip Film Festival, a festival in The Netherlands dedicated to Turkish art house cinema. He also sat on the KNF (Dutch association of film critics) jury for the 2015 Dutch Film Festival. He was a member of the FIPRESCI jury at 9th Documentarist - Istanbul Documentary Days 2016. Besides a film critic he’s also a programmer for Filmhuis Breda, an up and coming art house theater. The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for “the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests.” It was founded in June 1930 in Brussels, Belgium.At present it has members in more than 50 countries worldwide. FIPRESCI Award The FIPRESCI often gives out awards during film festivals (such as the Vienna International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival and the Warsaw International Film Festival) to reward what they see as enterprising film making. Winners of the award include Theodoros Angelopoulos, Satyajit Ray, Danis Tanovic, Djibril Diop Mambety, Pedro Almodóvar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Manoel de Oliveira, Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Kim Ki-duk, Aki Kaurismäki, Terrence Malick, Michael Moore, Cristian Mungiu, Jafar Panahi, Roman Polanski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Woody Allen and Wong Kar-wai. Visar Darko Mehdi MORINA BASHESKI ABDOLLAHZADEH born 1979 in Pristina. From 2004 - Graduated from Film and TV Camera Mehdi Abdollahzadeh is a Film critic, 2010, he studied Audiovisual Media Department, Skopje Started as a programmer and specialist of Iranian — Jury Feature with a focus on Film and Television at freelance photographer, later worked cinema. He was born in 1975. Mehdi the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. in City Museum of Skopje and couple obtained his Bachelor’s degree in During his studies he worked on advertising agencies in Macedonia. English literature at the University of various film- and theatre projects and Produced first Macedonian 3D Shiraz and his Master’s Degree in was among others assistance director Animation LEVI IN LOVE. After couple Communication Science at the University at the Volksbühne in Berlin as well as years producing corporate films, from of Lugano. He has written as a film critic at the Schauspiel Köln. His short film 2009 – 2015 he was the CEO at the since 1996, focusing mainly on Iranian Macedonian Film Fund (from 2014 Cinema. Mehdi has been a member of DER SCHÜBLING (2009) was awarded renamed as Macedonian Film Agency). the editorial board for Mosharekat daily, at several national and international Filmnegar monthly, cinema industry festivals, also at TIFF as best monthly and Film Criticism quarterly international short film. His other short magazines, all of which are published Of Dogs and Wallpaper competed in the in Iran. Along with being the contributor international short film competition at the of Atlas to the Cahiers du Cinema in Locarno IFF 2013) and was nominated 2005 and 2006. Mehdi has worked as for the german shortfilm award in a consultant for the “Vision Du Rèel” 2014. His debut feature film BABAI, international film festival from 2004 till was awarded at several international 2010 in Nyon, Switzerland. In 2006 he festivals such as Karlovy Vary IFF 2015 was a member of the FIPRESCI jury in for Best Director. the San Sebastian Film Festival. 2016 | Iran | 80’ 2015 | Italy | 104’ ATOUSA’S LAUGHTER DON’T BE BAD Awards Alireza Venice Film Festival Claudio FARID CALIGARI Director Claudio Caligari Cast Luca Marinelli Three couples are in train going to Turkey, they all have their own A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia, the same Alessandro Borghi story that connected them together and .... places of the films of Pasolini. His characters, in the ‘90s, seem to Roberta Mattei belong to a world that revolves around hedonism. A world where Writers Claudio Caligari money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy Francesca Serafini Director Alireza Farid Giordano Meacci to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenty, act Writer Alireza Farid Music Alessandro Sartini in search of their success. Initiation for their existence has a very high Cast Pejman Bazeghi Paolo Vivaldi cost and Vittorio, to save himself, abandons Cesare, who instead will Mohammad Reza Forutan Cinematography Maurizio Calves Amir Jadidi inexorably sink. The bond that unites them is so strong that Vittorio Editing Mauro Bonanni Cinematography Morteza Ghafori really never shall abandon his friend, always hoping to be able to look Producers Paolo Bogna Editing Siamak Mehmandoost to the future with new eyes. Together. Simone Isola Producers Amir Pourkian Andrea Leone Pietro Valsecchi 2015 | Italy | 104’ DON’T BE BAD Awards Venice Film Festival Claudio CALIGARI Director Claudio Caligari Cast Luca Marinelli A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia, the same Alessandro Borghi places of the films of Pasolini. His characters, in the ‘90s, seem to Roberta Mattei belong to a world that revolves around hedonism. A world where Writers Claudio Caligari money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy Francesca Serafini Giordano Meacci to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenty, act Music Alessandro Sartini in search of their success. Initiation for their existence has a very high Paolo Vivaldi cost and Vittorio, to save himself, abandons Cesare, who instead will Cinematography Maurizio Calves inexorably sink. The bond that unites them is so strong that Vittorio Editing Mauro Bonanni really never shall abandon his friend, always hoping to be able to look Producers Paolo Bogna to the future with new eyes.
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