The director Theo Angelopoulos, born in Athens in 1935, will be awarded the ‘Luis Buñuel’ Award 2009 within the framework of the 37th Huesca Film Festival, which will be held from June 4th to 13th 2009. Theo Angelopoulos, who is one of the most influential directors in contemporary cinema, has received awards at the most important films festivals of the world in recognition of his entire career.Some of the themes of Angelopoulos’s cinema are the weight of history, a clinical examination o...

The Third Morelia International Film Festival drew to close with a ceremony conducted by Patrick Oliver. Salvador López Orduña, Municipal President of Morelia, gave a brief speech, along with Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, Governor of the State of Michoacán. Alejandro Ramírez and Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Batel also said a few words; Daniela Michel closed the ceremony with her final remarks.The Governor said he felt proud of this year’s program: “It was an honor to show the best of Mexican and world...