Kira Muratova, the grande dame of Soviet Russian independent cinema, has lived and worked for almost fifty years in Odessa in Ukraine. She talked to Eduard Steiner about the political situation in Ukraine, her chosen home, and about the difficulties experienced by Ukrainian filmmakers.
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Our guest author Maya McKechneay is an enthusiastic cineaste and during the warm months of the year likes to travel to various film festivals in Central and Eastern Europe. The best tips from a real insider.
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For a period of four months ending in September 2006, an undeveloped part of the Donaucity stood under the theatre moon of theatercombinat and its guests.
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A Commend on the last exhibition "Territories, Identities, Nets" in Ljubljana of the Slowenian curator Igor Zabel (1958-2005).
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A commentary by Stefan Grissemann on the situation of the cinema in the new member countries of the European Union
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In former Yugoslavia Slovenian film played only a marginal role and yet there are still a number of current highlights
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Statements:
film / photography | Duško Dimitrovski, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Eva-Maria Lass, Austria | Robert Buchschwentner, Austria | Christian Fuchs, Austria | Hans Langsteiner , Austria
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Antje Mayer in conversation with Eric Pleskow, who was born in Vienna in 1924, emigrated to the USA in 1939, producer and winner of several Oscars and has been president of the Viennale for the last seven years about his "return" to Vienna, the eastward expansion of the EU and George W. Bush.
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Bert Rebhandl in conversation with Ivan Jachim, director of the film festival Finále Plzeň that shows annually all the feature films made that year in the Czech Republic, about the developments of the film scene in his country, its political origins and the involvement of the private economy.
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On Belá Tarr, the lonely Master of Hungarian cinema and other talented young directors in Hungary.
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The current situation of the film scene in the Czech Republic.
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Czech film has an international reputation. But what about the scene in Slovakia, which has been an independent country since 1993?
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Glimpses of cinematic life in Serbia and Croatia.
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Strategies for survival in the former communist European film landscapes.
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Cineastes can celebrate summer this year at two film festivals: in Slovakia in June and then in Istria (Croatia) in July: the Motovun Film Festival (MFF) in the Croatian village of Motovun and Artfilm in Trenčianske Teplice (Slovakia)
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Ever since its founding in February 1964, the Vienna Film Museum has sought to be an “instruction for the eye” and “training of memory” for innovative (inter)national film. Film Museum director and cinephile Alexander Horwath imparts to us his knowledge of Eastern European cinema.
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By Boris Despodov, Bulgaria 2008
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