KVIFF (30 June – 8 July 2023)
Presentation of the Label Jury
Three Network exhibitors from Germany, Netherlands and Sweden 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 13 European films competing in both the Crystal Globe and Proxima Competition.
The three Jury members this year are:
Anna-Lena Arreborn (Co-founder, Bio Bristol, Sundbyberg, Sweden)
Anna-Lena Arreborn has a bachelor degree in film studies and has been working in several cinemas and film festivals in Sweden. In 2018, she reopened with a colleague of hers the classic cinema theatre Bristol, which has been initially built in 1939 and closed for the last 40 years. Bristol is now a fully renovated art house cinema with modern comfort and technique, and it became a cornerstone in the local municipality. Since the beginning, Anna-Lena and her team have opted for a repertoire of inclusion and diversity.
Ilona van Heeckeren (CEO, Natlab, Eindhoven, Netherlands)
After studying film and television studies at Utrecht University and the production class of the Dutch Film Academy, Ilona van Heeckeren started working at various film theaters in the Netherlands (Rialto, Amsterdam, Verkadefabriek Den bosch and since 2018 at Natlab in Eindhoven). She is passionate about arthouse films (e.g. Dalva, No Dogs or Italians allowed or Collective). In addition, she is convinced that it is important to combine cinema programming with peripheral programs such as film education, theme evenings about, for example, sustainability and many children's film activities such as Cinemini and Green screen workshops. Since the end of 2018, she has been working at Natlab, a large film theatre in middle of the Netherlands. In 6 cinemas they show arthouse films, documentaries and animated films.
Jörg Jacob (UNION-Studio für Filmkunst & PROVINZ Programmkino, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Since the PROVINZ80 company is dedicated to film-art and art-film it keeps up this tradition with special-screenings, inviting guests, exploration of digital possibilities, longing to pass down the practice of film reception in cinemas. The company is even more bound to that since it took over one of the oldest cinemas in Germany, the UNION-Studio für Filmkunst (est 1911) in Kaiserslautern. The company regularly receives regional and national awards, even German top-ranked in 2009, 2015, 2016.
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List of European films eligible for the Europa Cinemas Label:
CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
BLAGA'S LESSONS by Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria), 114 min.
EMPTY NETS by Behrooz Karamizade (Germany, Iran), 91 min.
THE GIRLS ARE ALRIGHT by Itsaso Arana (Spain), 85 min.
THE HYPNOSIS by Ernst De Geer (Sweden), 98 min.
A SENSITIVE PERSON by Tomáš Klein (Czech Republic), 120 min.
WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN by Matěj Chlupáček (Czech Republic), 117 min.
WHERE THE WIND BLOWS by Marco Righi (Italy), 108 min.
PROXIMA COMPETITION
ARSENIE. AN AMAZING AFTERLIFE by Alexandru Solomon (Romania), 96 min.
BRUTAL HEAT by Albert Hospodářský (Czech Republic), 75 min.
EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY by Kyros Papavassiliou (Cyprus), 91 min.
IMAGO by Olga Chajdas (Poland), 113 min.
KEEPING MUM by Emilie Brisavoine (France), 80 min.
THE LOST CHILDREN by Michèle Jacob (Belgium), 83 min.
The Europa Cinemas Label will be awarded on Saturday, 8 July at 3.00pm during the non-statutory Juries Awards Ceremony at the Moser Terrace (Vodafone Lounge) of the Hotel Thermal.
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EC Label contacts:
Fatima Djoumer, CEO / 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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