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Spotlight on Bangladesh
This year the Forum focuses on Bangladesh and its vibrant cinema. In spite of political unrest, poverty and natural disasters – and despite the lack of production infrastructures, film schools and public cinemas – an independent filmmaking tradition continues to stubbornly persist, blurring the boundaries between popular entertainment and auteur cinema.
Forum at FIFF
Monday, 26.03.2012, 2-6 pm
NH Hotel, Fribourg
The members of the International Jury
The five personalities charged with awarding the Regard d’or, the Grand Prize of the Fribourg International Film Festival are: the Bangladeshi director Golam Rabbany Biblop, the Iranian director Sepideh Farsi, the French producer Jacky Goldberg, the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof and the Swiss musician Franz Treichler.
FIFF showcase in Bern
The traditional Bernese avant-premiere of the FIFF takes place on Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Presented as Swiss premiere, This is Not a Film by Jafar Panahi and Mojitaba Mirtahmasb (Iran, 2011) offers an intense foretaste of the 26th Festival edition, to be held from March 24 to 31 in Fribourg. The screening will be followed by a dining cocktail.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
6.15 pm, CinéMovie 1
Seilerstrasse 4, 3011 Bern
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Short film contest
The FIFF and moncinéma.ch are looking for the new king of western! Who will shoot a remake of a cult western of maximum 2 minutes duration and hit the bull's-eye? 2 Festival passes, 2 overnight accommodations, and much more is at stake. Do not wait any longer, release your camera and go west!
Request your accreditation now
Film professionals and media can request their accreditation for the 26th edition of the FIFF until March 9, 2012.
A Festival at the crossroads of cultures
Westerns from all over the world, a focus on Bangladesh and several programme sections with prominent Swiss figures: For the first time, the FIFF introduces annually recurring parallel sections, which highlight thematic core areas. Amongst other things they include sections devoted to the genre film, regional film industries that have received very little attention in the past or the phenomenon of Diaspora. The latter allows a Swiss celebrity to present cinematographic treasures from his ancestral homeland. This programme section will kick off with cartoonist Patrick Chappatte, who introduces us to films from the Lebanon.
The 26th FIFF poster
The poster of the 26th edition of the FIFF was created by Billy Ben aka Bénédict Rohrer, an independent graphic designer based in Fribourg, as a reference to the Festival's cross cultural mission. Thank you!
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