Twelve films are in the running this year for the Regard d’Or, the top award of the Fribourg International Film Festival (March 24 – 31), which carries a prize of CHF 30,000 (USD 33,000). For the competition, current productions were selected from the FIFF’s traditional focal points, namely South and Latin America, Asia and Africa. In addition the Near and Middle East are represented, with films from Jordan, Egypt and Iran. Many film-makers will be in attendance in Fribourg to present the...
Swiss Federal Councillor Simonetta Sommaruga declared the 25th edition of the festival as open and started the race for the "Regard d'or", the main award of the festival (30'000 CHF). At the opening night the Chinese action film "Little Big Soldier", starring Jackie Chan, was shown in front of a full house and in presence of the producer Ramy Choi.
At the opening the Director of the festival, Edouard Waintrop, said: "For me a good festival is like...
About 30'000 spectators are expected in Fribourg from March 19 to 26, 2011 for the 25th FIFF edition. Twelve feature films from ten countries will be competing for the Festival's main award, the Regard d’Or. All films in competition are screened as Swiss premieres. The spectrum of films in competition ranges from Chinese box office hits (Aftershock by Feng Xiaogang) to auteur films from Iran (The House Under the Water by Sepideh Farsi). Many of the filmmakers will present their film in person ...
The five film professionals charged with awarding the Regard d'or, the Grand Prize of the Fribourg International Film Festival are: Spanish filmmaker Mercedes Álvarez, Swiss producer Christian Davi, Indian producer and distributor Sunil Doshi, Moroccan filmmaker Izza Genini and Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili. The FIFF also announces the presence of American artist Joan Logue, who will carry out an exceptional project involving video portraits of the Festival guests in collabor...
During an extraordinary General Assembly, the Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) Association has unanimously appointed Thierry Jobin as the new director of the Festival while granting him a mandate of three years. He will assume his new function in May 2011. Thierry Jobin will thus take the place of Edouard Waintrop who was named director of the Centre d’animation cinématographique Voltaire (CAC-Voltaire) in September 2010.Ruth Lüthi, the Festival’s president, is delighted with th...
Main awards all go to first films
This Saturday evening, Georgian director George Ovashvili received the CHF 30.000 prize from the hands of jury president Hanna Schygulla. THE OTHER BANK also won the Audience Award. The prestigious "Talent Tape Award" worth CHF 23.000 in non-cash benefit was handed to Iranian director Nader T. Homayoun for his film TEHROUN.
The Special Jury Award was presented to the Mexican contribution NORTEADO by Rigoberto Perezcano....
Fribourg film festival focuses on films from Africa, Latin America and Asia - shorts, features and documentaries. Fiction and documentary competition.
At its General Assembly of 14 November 2007 the Association of the Fribourg International Film Festival re-composed its Committee and appointed the artistic director for the next three editions (2008-2010). Edouard Waintrop will be in charge of the course and the artistic programming of the Festival from 2008 to 2010. Already designated last summer by the FIFF Committee for the 2008 Festival, he expressed the wish to be able to continue beyond his upcoming initial experience, which will take pla...
The President, the Committee and the Director of the Fribourg International Film Festival announce the engagement of film critic Edouard Waintrop as programmer for the 2008 edition. He will officially take office at the beginning of September 2007. Edouard Waintrop:Born June 3, 1952 in Suresnes, Hauts de Seine, France.After studies in economics, he worked for six years (from 1974 to 1980) in the socio-cultural sector as head of cinematographic and jazz programming in Montreuil, in the Paris subu...
The Regard d’Or of the 18th edition of the Fribourg International Film Festival was awarded Sunday to “Días de Santiago” by Josué Méndez, Peru. Unanimously the International Jury, presided by Argentine director Eliseo Subiela, “recognised the cinematographic quality of this first work as well as the actor’s performance.” Such quality and performance also greatly impressed the other Juries. “Días de Santiago” also took the EX-CHANGE Award conferred by the Youth Jury, the Ecume...
Fribourg International Film Festival – 18th edition / 21st – 28 March 2004That we may not forget, the 18th edition of the Fribourg International Film Festival is placed under the sign of remembrance. There is the remembrance of peoples and that of conflicts; the remembrance of crises and that of roots. The cinema is a powerful remembering machine. Fernando Solanas knows that well. He questions the Argentine crisis of December 2001 in his new film, co-produced by Thelma Films, “La Memoria d...
