Award Winners 2009
27 November 2009, by encounters
0 CommentsA huge Congratulations goes out to the 2009 Encounters winning films.
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Encounters Awards: congratulations all round!
23 November 2009, by encounters
0 CommentsThe 15th Encounters Film Festival came to an end with a celebration of new filmmaking in a smashing Awards ceremony!
Shorts 2 Features: The Happiest Girl in the World
22 November 2009, by encounters
0 CommentsCea mai fericita fata din lume (The Happiest Girl in the World, 2009), from director Radu Jude whose short Lampa cu caciula (The Tube with a Hat, 2006) screened at Encounters in 2007, is a part of the Shorts 2 Features strand of the festival. The Happiest Girl in the World was shown earlier this year in February at the Venice Biennale, where Creative Director, Mark Cosgrove, first saw the film.
Shorts 2 Features: Fish Tank
21 November 2009, by encounters
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Fast becoming of Britain's most respected directors, Andrea Arnold follows her feature debut Red Road and acclaimed Oscar® winning short film Wasp with an equally powerful drama of a female on the margins, featuring a remarkable performance from non-professional newcomer Katie Jarvis as 15 year-old Mia. Foul-mouthed and feisty, she lives with her single mother and dreams of being a dancer and leaving behind her council flat existence, but a dramatic change arrives in the form of her mother's charismatic new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender, Hunger) when the two form a strong but suspect bond. With intimate realism and subtle complexity, Fish Tank bravely explores the uncertainties of female adolescent sexuality. Arnold is breathing new life back into British realism with a lyrical jolt.
Individual triumphs in International Panorama 1
21 November 2009, by encounters
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The selection of films in the International Panorama 1 competition collection share a theme of the triumph of the individual over the pressure or even the ease of conformity
Aurora Programme
21 November 2009, by encounters
0 CommentsThis years Aurora Festival saw the final chapter of the annual event giving way to other projects and collaborations. This screening of ten shorts from the festival demonstrate the pick of the crop in international art-house talent.
Shorts 2 Features: Shifty
21 November 2009, by encounters
0 CommentsShorts 2 Features takes the opportunity to speak to Eran Creevy, writer and directoy of Shifty and what it's like to make the leap.
