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Three Continents Film Festival
The Three Continents Festival (French: ''Festival des 3 Continents'') is an annual film festival held since 1979 in Nantes, France, devoted to the cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It was founded by Philippe and Alain Jalladeau.Deccan Herald , "Films from three continents", Retrieved 15 December 2008 The top award in the festival's competition is the balloon-shaped Montgolfiere d'or. In conjunction with the festival is the Produire au Sud ("Producers of the South"), a project that provides funding to independent film productions from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. List of Montgolfière d'or winners Further reading *''Asia's magic lante ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgolfière D'or
The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (; 26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (; 6 January 1745 – 2 August 1799) – were aviation pioneers, balloonists and paper manufacturers from the Communes of France, commune Annonay in Ardèche, France. They invented the ''Montgolfière''-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique, which launched the first confirmed piloted ascent by humans in 1783, carrying Jacques-Étienne. Joseph-Michel also invented the self-acting hydraulic ram (1796) and Jacques-Étienne founded the first paper-making vocational school. Together, the brothers invented a process to manufacture Vellum#Paper vellum, transparent paper. Early years Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier were born into a family of paper manufacturers. Their parents were Pierre Montgolfier (1700–1793) and Anne Duret (1701–1760), who had 16 children. Pierre Montgolfier established his eldest son, Raymond (1730–1772), as his succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Markado
''Angela Markado'' is a 1980 Philippine crime drama film directed by National Artist Lino Brocka. It is written by Jose Lacaba based on a comics serial by Carlo J. Caparas. Conrado Baltazar is the film's cinematographer and Augusto Salvador is its editor. The film stars Hilda Koronel, Raoul Aragon, Rez Cortez, Johnny Delgado, Ruel Vernal, and Celia Rodriguez. The film was screened at and competed in the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, France, in 1984, in which it won the best picture award. Conrado Baltazar won best cinematography for the film at the Gawad Urian in 1980 and was nominated at the Famas Award in the same year. The movie was remade in 2015 under the direction of Caparas and starred Andi Eigenmann Andrea Nicole Guck Eigenmann (; born June 25, 1990), known professionally as Andi Eigenmann, is a Filipino former actress, model, and social media influencer. Early life Descent and family Andrea Nicole Guck Eigenmann is the daughter of actors .... See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rouge (film)
''Rouge'' (; Jyutping: Jin1zi1 kau3) is a 1987 Hong Kong supernatural romantic-drama film directed by Stanley Kwan, and starring Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung. The film is the adaptation of a novel with the same title by Lilian Lee. Plot In 1987 Hong Kong, newspaperman Yuen and his girlfriend Chor are drawn into a doomed 1930s romance when the ghost of courtesan Fleur publishes an advertisement in the newspapers, looking for her lost lover Chan Chen-Pang. She has waited in the afterlife for Chan for 53 years and believes he has become lost. Chan was the playboy son of a wealthy family, but longed to be an actor, met and fell in love with talented, beautiful Fleur in one of Hong Kong's teahouses. Realising their romance would never be accepted, the couple committed suicide by opium overdose in order to be together in the afterlife. Pragmatic Yuen and Chor become dazzled by the romance of Fleur's story and the ghost's glamorous beauty, but as their search for Chan reveals the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ömer Kavur
Ömer Kavur (18 June 1944 – 12 May 2005) was a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed fourteen films between 1974 and 2003. His film, '' Gece Yolculuğu'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Nine years later, his film '' Akrebin Yolculuğu'' was screened in the same section at the 1997 Festival. He died on 12 May 2005, of lymphoma at his home in Teşvikiye, Istanbul, and was buried at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery following the religious funeral service held at the Teşvikiye Mosque The Teşvikiye Mosque () is a neo-baroque structure located in the Teşvikiye neighbourhood of Şişli district in Istanbul, Turkey. History The mosque was originally commissioned in 1794 by Sultan Selim III, but most of the current mosque t .... Filmography * '' Yatık Emine'' (1974) * '' Yusuf ile Kenan'' (1979) * '' Kırık bir aşk hikâyesi'' (1981) * '' Ah güzel Istanbul'' (1981) * '' Göl'' (1982) * '' Körebe'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motherland Hotel
''Motherland Hotel'' () is a 1987 Turkish film directed by Ömer Kavur. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yusuf Atılgan. Plot Zebercet owns a hotel in a small provincial town. He manages to keep it up with the help of one maid, a little girl who lives with him. One evening, one of the clients leaves the hotel, promising to return in a week. Haunted by the memory of the beautiful unknown, it leaves little to be gained by a little melancholy. Overwhelmed by his impulses, he refuses to take any clients, and closes the hotel. Cast * Macit Koper - Zebercet *Şahika Tekand - The lady *Serra Yılmaz - Ortalıkçı * Orhan Çağman - Emekli Subay Awards *1987 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival: Best Director, Second Best Film *1987 Istanbul Film Festival: Best Turkish Film *1987 Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yan Xueshu
Yan may refer to: States * Yan (state) (11th century BC–222 BC), a major state in northern China during the Zhou dynasty * Yan Kingdom (Han dynasty), first appearing in 206 BC **Prince of Yan title held in various dynasties of China * Yan (Three Kingdoms), from 237 to 238 * Former Yan (337–370), a Xianbei state in present-day Hebei * Western Yan (384–394), a Xianbei state in present-day Shanxi * Later Yan (384–409), a Xianbei state during Sixteen Kingdoms Period * Southern Yan (398–410), a Xianbei state in present-day Shandong * Northern Yan (407–436), successor of Later Yan * Yan (An–Shi) (756–763), a rebel state founded by the An Lushan rebellion * Yan (Five Dynasties period) short-lived state in Hebei from 911 to 913 Names Surname * Yan (surname), romanization for several Chinese surnames * Yan, a Cantonese transcription of surname Zhen (甄) Given name * Yan, a transliteration of the name "Ян" (Jan) from the Russian language Mononymous persons * Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Wild Mountains
IN, In or in may refer to: Dans * India (country code IN) * Indiana, United States (postal code IN) * Ingolstadt, Germany (license plate code IN) * In, Russia, a town in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Businesses and organizations * Independent Network, a UK-based political association * Indiana Northeastern Railroad (Association of American Railroads reporting mark) * Indian Navy, a part of the India military * Infantry, the branch of a military force that fights on foot * IN Groupe, the producer of French official documents * MAT Macedonian Airlines (IATA designator IN) * Nam Air (IATA designator IN) * Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, sometimes abbreviated IN Science and technology * .in, the internet top-level domain of India * Inch (in), a unit of length * Indium, symbol In, a chemical element * Intelligent Network, a telecommunication network standard * Intra-nasal (insufflation), a method of administrating some medications and vaccines * Integrase, a retr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Summer At Grandpa's
''A Summer at Grandpa's'' () is a 1984 Taiwanese coming-of-age family drama directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien and co-written with Hou by Chu Tʽien-wen. The film tells the semi-autobiographical exploits of a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents while their mother is in critical care in the hospital. The film was Hou's sixth overall, and first after his international breakthrough '' The Boys from Fengkuei'' (1983). ''A Summer at Grandpa's'' was well received by critics in Taiwan and on the American and European festival circuits, winning the Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival in 1985 and the Golden Montgolfier at the 1985 Nantes Three Continents Film Festival. Plot A young boy, Tung-Tung and his sister spend a summer vacation at their grandparents' house in the country while their mother recuperates from an illness; they while away the hours climbing trees, swimming in a stream, searching for missing cattle, and coming uneasily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Naderi
Amir Naderi (, , born 15 August 1946, in Abadan) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for '' The Runner'' and '' Vegas: Based on a True Story''. Career Amir Naderi grew up in Abadan, a working-class port city in southern Iran. He developed his knowledge of cinema by watching films at the theater where he worked as a boy, reading film criticism, and making relationships with leading film critics. He became interested in photography and cinema at an early age. As a filmmaker, he was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson's photography of urban experience and everyday life, as well as the aesthetics of Italian neorealist cinema, such as location shooting and nonprofessional actors, looser narrative structures, and a focus on the plight of poor and working-class people. Naderi's early films explored similar themes and visual strategies, but they did so within the context of Iranian life and culture. Naderi made his directorial debut with ''Goodbye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Runner (1985 Film)
''The Runner'' (Persian: ...دونده, ''Davandeh...'') is a 1984 Iranian film by Amir Naderi. ''The Runner'' was one of the first post-revolutionary Iranian films screened and celebrated internationally. Inspired by director Amir Naderi’s own boyhood, it sets the tone for many of the films that followed: realism, children's perspective of the world, innocence, gentleness, set in poor neighbourhoods, exposing great disparities in wealth, resting much of the film on the shoulders of one young actor, using children's lives as analogies for, or explicit expositions of, the problems of the adult world. The film is critically acclaimed for presenting an authentic image of the encounter with modernity in Iranian cinema. Plot The film plot is inspired by the writer/director Naderi's own childhood. Amiro is an orphan living in the southern Iranian port city of Abadan. Picking up the bottles, he gives them to his gaffer. Moreover, his bosom friend Moussa also picks bottles for a livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien ( zh, t=侯孝賢, poj=Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film '' A City of Sadness'' (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for '' The Assassin'' (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include '' The Puppetmaster'' (1993) and ''Flowers of Shanghai'' (1998). Hou was voted "Director of the Decade" for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics by ''The Village Voice'' and ''Film Comment''. In a 1998 New York Film Festival worldwide critics' poll, Hou was named "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema." ''A City of Sadness'' ranked 117th in the British Film Institute's 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. In 2017, Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boys From Fengkuei
''The Boys from Fengkuei'' (), also known as ''All the Youthful Days'', is a 1983 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. The movie is about a group of impulsive teenagers with nothing to do and high energy. While waiting to be enlisted in the army, they cause trouble in their hometown, Fengkuei, and run away from Penghu to Kaohsiung. From a small town to a big city, through the depression and turmoil of youth they experience unforgettable life scenery and gradually recede from their original youthfulness. It was Hou Hsiao-hsien's first art film after he directed three light comedies in the early eighties and a representative work of the Taiwan New Cinema at its inception. Plot Ah-ching, whose father is disabled due to a brain injury, fools around with his friends Ah-rong, Kuo-zai, and Ah-yu in their island fishing village, Fengkuei (). One day, they get into trouble with the local gangsters, and Ah-ching smashes one's head with a brick, causing the police to look for Ah-chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
