The Diagonale is the annual festival of Austrian film. The highlight of this year’s edition, held March 27 to April 2 in Graz: artistic responses to the country’s current political situation. MARCY GOLDBERG reports.
Peter’s first film, Grandfathers and Revolutions, is a story about his own grandfather, András Hegedüs; the Prime Minister of Hungary who called in the Soviet troops to quash the Hungarian Revolution in 1956
This film follows a number of former lovers who are currently in a state of war
The 23rd edition of the Duisburger Filmwoche was held November 1-7, 1999. MARCY GOLDBERG met with its organizers for a round-table chat on what makes this German doc festival unique.
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The humorous, skillful and atheist provocateur Luis Bunuel had made “Un chien andalou” (together with Dali) and “L’age d’or”, maybe the two most famous surrealist films ever, when a friend promised that, if he’d ever win money in the lottery, he’d finance a film Bunuel wanted to make about a certain poor region in Spain: Las Hurdes
Filmmaker Volker Koepp interviews two Holocaust survivors in the city of Chernowitz, a former center of Jewish culture
As his birthday approaches, an Israeli filmmaker juggles a complicated assignment for an important anniversary