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Bleak Optimism: Balkan film at the 45th Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Andrew James Horton
February 2005
Festival Reports
November 19–28, 2004 Even before the 1990s, the Balkans was infamous for inter-ethnic tensions, and the word Balkanisation was a derogatory term to describe disintegration into squabbling factions unab...
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Making a Song and Dance of It – 34th Hungarian Film Week

Andrew James Horton
March 2003
Festival Reports
28 January – 4 February When cinema first appeared at the end of the 19th century, there was a huge debate as to whether it could be considered a valid art form or just a rather gimmicky form of sideshow...
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An Industry of Philanthropy – Balkan film at the 43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival

Andrew James Horton
January 2003
Festival Reports
8-17 November 2002 Festival website: www.filmfestival.gr “I have always thought that European cinema should protect themselves…” said Nae Caranfil introducing his latest film Filantropica (Philanthropy...
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Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times – Márta Mészáros interviewed

Andrew James Horton
October 2002
Feature Articles
Long-time director Meszáros talks about filmmaking both during and post the Communist regime.
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Inhaling a Unique Atmosphere – Central and East European Film at the 37th Karlovy Vary

Andrew James Horton
October 2002
Festival Reports
4-13 July 2002 Festival website: www.iffkv.cz In the 1970s and ‘80s, a film in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival was lucky to gain any more than a handful of viewers. But now t...
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The 13th Trieste Film Festival: “Alpe Adria Cinema”

Andrew James Horton
March 2002
Festival Reports
Though geographically located in Italy, the Trieste Film Festival showcases many films from the former communist countries.
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The Outskirts Becoming the Centre – Balkan Film at the 42nd International Thessaloniki Film Festival

Andrew James Horton
December 2001
Festival Reports
Greek cinema sits alongside its international counterparts in this major East European festival.
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A Window Both Ways – Central and East European Film at the 36th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Andrew James Horton
September 2001
Festival Reports
A comprehensive and highly informative overview of what is an important European film festival, especially symbolic is its balanced programming between films from the West and the East.
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A Report on the 48th Pula Film Festival and the Current State of the Croatian Film Industry

Andrew James Horton
July 2001
Festival Reports
The Pula Film Festival, 22-30 June 2001 The film ended, and the spotlights came on. As the director (along with several other members of the crew) mounted the stage, the Festival audience burst into spon...
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Just Who Owns the Shop? Identity and Nationality in Obchod na korze

Andrew James Horton
December 2000
Eastern European Cinema
Czech or Slovak? When consideration of a film's origin becomes a complicated affair.

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