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Starting the Dialogue: Curators' Texts Online
The texts are an appetiser for the Dialoges with Films - Four Decades of the Forum, with the curators describing how they came to choose the films, their personal intepretations of them as well as their relationship to the Forum. The texts can be found on the pages for the individual films.
Young Filmmakers' Award for "Night Before Eyes"
Brigitte Bertele's film Night Before Eyes, which received its world premiere at the Forum in 2008, has won the Studio Hamburg Young Filmmakers' Award for Best Screenplay.
The Forum Special Guest at Grimstadt
The Forum is to be honoured at this year's Norwegian Short Film Festival, to be held in Grimstad from June 10th-16th, with a screening of Burrowing and a presentation given by Christoph Terhechte.
4 Decades of the Forum: Symposium to be held at Kino Arsenal
To celebrate the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Forum, the "Dialogues with Films: 4 Decades of the International Forum of New Cinema" symposium will be held at Kino Arsenal from July 1st – 5th.
Dalia Hager at The Artists-in-Berlin Programme
Israeli director Dalia Hager, whose film Close to Home was shown at the Forum in 2006 is among the new scholars of the DAAD'S renowned Artists-in-Berlin Programme.
Awards for "The Exploding Girl" and "Defamation" at Tribeca
Zoe Kazan has been awarded best actress for her role in Bradley Rust Gray's The Exploding Girl at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Yoav Shamir's Defamation received a special jury mention.
"The One Man Village" wins main prize at HotDocs
Simon El Habre's The One Man Village is the winner of the international competition at this year's HotDocs film festival. The Prize is endowed with 10.000 US-Dollars.
Awards for "Treeless Mountain"
So Yong Kim won the outstanding director award for her film Treeless Mountain at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival. The film also picked up acting awards for Kim Hee-Yeon and Kim Song-Hee.
Success for Forum Films in Lisbon
Three films from the 2009 Forum program have been awarded at the IndieLisboa film festival: The Happiest Girl in the World won the FIPRESCI award; D'Arusha à Arusha and L'encirclement got special mentions; in addition the latter won the audience award.