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Invisible special effects

In front | ANALYSIS
Davy Jones (Photo: kashif.pasta/ Flickr)

Travelling through time, meeting surreal people in unreal places … Nothing is impossible at the cinema

by Marco Riciputi // 26/07/07

Venice Film Festival goes war conflict

The 64th Venice Film Festival – great performances from the actors, but the favourites are two films about Iraq

by Paolo Perrone // 11/09/07

AGENDA

September culture vulture

Basel dances, Barcelona premieres the best international short films and four cultures head the dialogue in ód, Poland – our monthly cultural calendar

by Jannik Pfister // 31/08/07

INTERVIEW
A scene from <i>Elephants Dream</i> (Photo: Blender Foundation/ www.blender.org)

Elephants Dream

Released in 2006, Elephants Dream was the first animated film made exclusively with open source software and released online as a free public download. Café Babel speaks to the film’s director

by Marco Riciputi // 26/07/07

ANALYSIS
The solitary Sicilian orphan lives in a small house by the sea (Photo: Antonio Parrinello)

'Depressing' new Italian cinema

Quentin Tarantino's sweeping May statement finds an exception in current Sicilian-set offering 'Salvatore - This Is Life'

by Maria Lombardo // 22/06/07

FOCUS
The Curzon cinema in Soho, where the festival is set to kick off (Photo: Tom Royal/ Flickr)

London, Berlin and Madrid: cine-pigs

Between 8 and 14 June London hosts the third part of ‘Picture Europe’, the first film festival taking place simultaneously across different European cities

by Fernando García Acuña & Abla Kandalaft // 08/06/07

Shining new star Ruth Negga (Photo: SFC)

Ruth Negga, a star without a label

The half Irish, half Ethiopian Ruth Negga, 23, burst onto the cinema scene as an emotional and promising talent during the 2006 Berlin Film Festival

by Jorge Gutiérrez // 02/12/06

The Italian maestros Rosi y Tonino Guerra at work at the masterclass, during the European Cinema Festival (Photo: SFC)

Rolling out the blue carpet

The British film ‘Venus’ by Robert Michell scooped the main prize, whilst German films swept the board

by María Concha Hierro del Hoyo // 17/11/06

REVIEW
Scarlett Johansson in Woody Allen's latest film (focusfeatures)

Woody breaks news with old-time 'Scoop’

Far from his beloved New York, Woody Allen presents a scathing portrait of British aristocracy in his new film

by Carles Matamoros // 01/11/06

FOCUS
The film 'Prinzessin' (Photo  Astrid Groborsch)

Girls hit cinema screens

Films about girls in the suburbs are all the rage in Europe

by Prune Antoine // 27/10/06

The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival (FFS)

From siege to silver screen

The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival, which ended on August 26, featured a packed programme of challenging films, revealing the remarkable

renaissance of filmmaking in the Balkans.

by Grégory Mounier // 06/09/06

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