KVIFF (1 – 9 July 2022)
Presentation of the Europa Cinemas Label Jury
Three Network exhibitors from Denmark, Hungary and Finland will take part in the Europa Cinemas Label Jury on the occasion of the upcoming International Film Festival of Karlovy Vary in Czech Republic. The Jury members will award one film among the 16 European films competing in both the Crystal Globe and Proxima Competition.
The three Jury members this year are:
Edit CSENKI (Cinema manager, Otthon Mozi, Kecskemét, Hungary)
Edit Csenki obtained a History and Cultural Organizer degree at a Teacher Training College, later she graduated in Communications at Szeged University’s Budapest Media Institute. She has been working as a cinema manager for 25 years and was organizing and shaping her town’s film-related programmes. As an expert in communications and as the cinema manager, Edit’s main aim is to enhance community relations and to cultivate visual culture at a high level. She works as a teacher of Media Studies in Kecskemét Katedra Art and Computer Sience High School.
Leena NÄREKANGAS (Executive Director, Cinema Orion, Helsinki, Finland)
Leena Närekangas has worked with films since late 1990’s in various positions; first in film production, later in the framework of festivals. She worked as well as a short and documentary film distributor and is currently managing a cultural organization named “Elävän kuvan keskus” (ELKE), that runs the art house cinema Cinema Orion, distributes classics and art-house films, is active in film education and is looking for ways of exhibiting films with new technology e.g., VR films. All these activities are strongly supported by local community and the film industry.
Kis RAUFF (Cultural Consultant, Nicolai Biograf, Kolding, Denmark)
Kis Rauff holds a Master of arts degree in Aesthetics obtained at the Aarhus University. She has studied film theory at the Université Vincennes, Paris. For the past 4 years, she has enjoyed working in the Art-House Cinema Nicolai as Cultural Consultant. Her main responsibilities are planning events, fundraising, collaborating with the Danish Film Institute, and writing press releases.
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List of European films eligible for the Europa Cinemas Label:
CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
A PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL (EDNA PROVINTSIALNA BOLNITSA) by Ilian Metev, IvanChertov, Zlatina Teneva (Bulgaria) 105 min
BORDERS OF LOVE (HRANICE LÁSKY) by Tomasz Wiński (Czech Republic, Poland) 95 min
FUCKING BORNHOLM (FUCKING BORNHOLM) by Anna Kazejak (Poland) 96 min
SILENCE 6–9 (ISIHIA 6–9) by Christos Passalis (Greece) 81 min
THE ORDINARIES (THE ORDINARIES) by Sophie Linnenbaum (Germany) 120 min
THE WORD (SLOVO) by Beata Parkanová (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland) 104 min
VESPER (VESPER) by Kristina Buožytė, Bruno Samper (Lithuania, France, Belgium) 114 min
YOU HAVE TO COME AND SEE IT (TENÉIS QUE VENIR A VERLA) by Jonás Trueba (Spain) 64 min
PROXIMA COMPETITION
AND THEN THERE WAS LOVE... (A PAK PŘIŠLA LÁSKA...) by Šimon Holý (Czech Republic) 85 min
ANOTHER SPRING (JOŠ JEDNO PROLEĆE) by Mladen Kovačević (Serbia) 90 min
ART TALENT SHOW (ZKOUŠKA UMĚNÍ) by Tomáš Bojar, Adéla Komrzý (Czech Republic) 102 min
FOOLS (GŁUPCY) by Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland, Romania, Germany) 109 min
LA PIETÀ (LA PIEDAD) by Eduardo Casanova (Spain, Argentina) 80 min
RAMONA (RAMONA) by Andrea Bagney (Spain) 80 min
THE UNCLE (STRIC) by David Kapac, Andrija Mardešić (Croatia, Serbia) 104 min
ZOO LOCK DOWN (ZOO LOCK DOWN) by Andreas Horvath (Austria) 73 min
The Europa Cinemas Label will be awarded on Saturday, 9 July at 3.00pm during the non-statutory Juries Awards Ceremony at the Moser Terrace of the Hotel Thermal. Come and join us!
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EC Label contacts:
Fatima Djoumer, Chief Operating Officer / fdjoumer@europa-cinemas.org
Lisa Püscher, EC Label Coordinator / lpuescher@europa-cinemas.org
Charles McDonald, Press Officer / charles@charlesmcdonald.co.uk
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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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