Melancholia is the most recent movie by the Danish director Lars von Trier, starring Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The film premiers at the Cannes Film Festival today, May 18. At the press conference, director Lars von Trier used a funny but somewhat dark (and maybe inappropriate) attitude to answer different questions. When asked if he would consider making a comedy after directing so many melancholic movies, Lars cleverly stated that the problem is that most of his "melancholi...

European Fantastic Shorts, the short film festival of Imagine: 25th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, contains around twenty films this year. Varying from three minutes to just over fifteen; from all over Europe right down to Croatia.15 to 26 April 2009 – Pathé Tuschinskiwww.imaginefilmfestival.nlShort films appear to be getting longer and longer. Fortunately it’s a case of more is more. Like the French COUPÉ COURT (Pascal Chind, 2007) which goes on for 17 minutes but feels not a second t...