film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...
, founded in 1999. The festival is held every April in
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-lar ...
, and has recently been expanded from five days to eights days.
The Festival presents a broad range of independent American and world cinema (narrative, documentary, experimental, shorts), restorations and revivals, and locally made pictures from Wisconsin filmmakers. Presented by the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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's Arts Institute, this is the largest campus-based film festival in the United States.
The festival plays in nine theaters, all within walking distance, in the heart of the state's capital city. The 2010 festival, which opened with the New Zealand documentary ''The
Topp Twins
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: Untouchable Girls'', screened 192 films and had an attendance of 34,539 in just five days. Highlights include a retrospective of South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's four feature films, including his recent ''
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The New York Times
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'' co-chief film critic,
Manohla Dargis
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The 2010 festival included work by
Michel Gondry
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Jan Hřebejk
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Born in Prague, Hřebejk graduated from high school in 1987 and continued his studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in ...
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Ken Loach
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Mary Sweeney
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Radu Jude
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In 2003, Jude graduated from the Film Directing Department of the Media University of Bucharest. He worked as an assistant director for feature films inclu ...
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Liu Jiayin
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Gianni Di Gregorio
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Born in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional ca ...
Jessica Hausner
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Maren Ade
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Xavier Dolan
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Corneliu Porumboiu
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Karen Shakhnazarov
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Bradley Rust Gray
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Lixin Fan
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Bert I. Gordon
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George Kuchar
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Jules Dassin
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John Frankenheimer
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