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Venice 2006 / Venice Days

13 articles available in total starting from 25/07/2006. Last article published on 08/09/2006.

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Daniel Sánchez Arévalo wins Europa Cinemas Label

DarkBlueAlmostBlack by Spanish director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (see interview) was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label prize, announced today by a jury of four exhibitors. The film was produced by...  

08/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

A cinematic gold digger

Although Rêves de poussière (lit. "Dreams of Dust") shows the harsh reality of Burkinese gold diggers who risk their lives every day in precarious shafts in the hopes of finding the gold nugget...  

08/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

"The People, Yes"

After the Venice Days screening of L'étoile du soldat (The Soldier’s Star), a room full of spectators – most of whom still had tears in their eyes – greeted this work of a lifetime (which...  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

Evil spreads

Jorge Sanchez-Cabezudo's debut feature is one of the biggest surprise of this year's Venice Days. In structure and content, La noche de los girasoles is as close as cinema gets to literature. Its...  

06/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

DarkBlueAlmostBlack: All shades of life

After making a splash at the latest Malaga Spanish Film Festival, DarkBlueAlmostBlack is now ready for greater higher international visibility as part of the sidebar section Venice Days. The first...  

05/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

7 Years: The poetry of prose

Jean-Pascal Hattu's film is indeed very French in that it deals with its subject with great sobriety (in the dialogue, which is very faithful to what everyday conversations, as well as in the very...  

05/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice days

When Los olvidados meet Jacques Demy

Faouzi Bensaïdi, director of Venice Days title WWW, What a Wonderful World, has made quite an impression on the film pundits present at the Venice Film Festival, not only for being a "total...  

05/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice days

A Breeze of Change

As a Shadow by Marina Spada is the portrait of a 30 year-old single woman, Claudia, in the superbly photographed concrete jungle that is Milan. As a typical member of consumer society (that is, of...  

04/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

Boe directs a film directed by Bro

After Allegro, Danish maverick director Christoffer Boe returns to Venice Days for the second year in a row, this time with the experimental Offscreen. In the film, a director named Christoffer...  

03/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

Midlife stasis

Jesper Ganslandt’s Falkenberg Farewell, a Swedish production by Memfis Film also selected for Toronto, which one of the actors says has a veracity rate of about 42%, remarkably matches form and...  

02/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

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