Milan Film Festival (MFF), also known as Milano Film Festival, is an annual film festival held since 1996 in

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, Italy. It was founded as a competition of only local

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s. It became an international film festival in 1998 when it also started to awards its participants. In 1999, it began to show feature films commenced, and in the following year they started to compete for the Best Film Award.

Best Film winners

*2000: ''The Irish Barbecue'', directed by Pete Parwich (Germany/Ireland) *2001: '' Fotograf'', directed by

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(Turkey) *2002: '' Children of Love'', directed by Geoffrey Enthoven (Belgium), and '' Song of the Sork'', directed by Jonathan Foo and Nguyen Phan Quang Binh *2003: ''Nothing Is Certain, It's All In The Imagination...According To Fellini'', directed by Susan Gluth *2004: ''

In the Battlefields ''In the Battlefields'' (french: Dans les champs de bataille, ar, معارك حب maarek hob) is a 2004 Lebanon, Lebanese film by director Danielle Arbid. The film premiered on May 16 during the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, in the Directors' Fortni ...

'', directed by

Danielle Arbid Danielle Arbid (born 26 April 1970) is a French filmmaker of Lebanon, Lebanese origin. She has been directing films since 1997. Her work has been selected for numerous film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival, Toronto FF, New York FF, San ...

(France/Belgium/Lebanon), and ''

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'', directed by

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*2005: ''

Kept and Dreamless ''Kept and Dreamless'' (''Las Mantenidas Sin Sueños'') is a 2005 Argentinian film directed by and starring Vera Fogwill. It also features Lucia Snieg and Elsa Berenguer. Shown at the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Ma ...

'', directed by Martín De Salvo and

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(Argentina/Spain/Netherlands) *2006: ''

Marilena from P7 ''Marilena from P7'' ( ro, Marilena de la P7) is a medium-length Romanian film, directed by Cristian Nemescu. First released in 2006, it was also nominated the same year for the ''Semaine de la critique'' section of the 59th Cannes Film Festival ...

'', directed by

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(Romania) *2007: ''

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'', directed by

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(Norway) *2008: '' Still Orangutans'', directed by Gustavo Spolidoro (Brazil) *2009: ''

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'', directed by Laurence Thrush (Japan) *2010: '' On the Other Side of Life'', directed by Stefanie Brockhaus and Andy Wolff (Germany) *2011: '' Italy: Love It, or Leave It'', directed by Luca Ragazzi and Gustav Hofer (Italy/Germany) *2012: '' China Heavyweight'', directed by Yung Chang (Canada/China) *2013: '' You and the Night'', directed by

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(France)

References

External links

* 1996 establishments in Italy Annual events in Italy Festivals in Milan Film festivals in Italy {{film-festival-stub