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During Films From the South you will get the chance to meet with directors, actors, producers and other interesting guests behind the films in the program. Read more about the festival guests here!
Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Norwegian LGBT Association (LLH) and Films From the South invite you to a seminar questioning identity struggles, art and global politics after the screening of Tomer Heymann’s documentary The Queen Has No Crown on Saturday October 8.
Starting tomorrow, Films From the South will again fill the cinemas and streets of Oslo with films and festival fun. You are invited to the official opening at 6 pm on Vika cinema.
Films From the South’s festival programme is now available online and in print. Start planning your festival now!
Films From the South and The Norwegian Film Institute welcome you to the Tatsumi Exhibition 2011 from October 7th – 16th.
This year, you can find several films closely linked with literature in the Film fra Sør programme. We have strengthened the ‘Literature and Film’ strand of the programme by moving several screenings to Litteraturhuset in downtown Oslo. There, we invite interesting guests to enrich our film experience through introductions, conversations and discussions.
Festival Cards, Festival Passes, tickets to Opening Ceremony and Gala Screenings now on sale!
What do historical film luminaries such as the Lumière brothers and Godard have to do with Palestinian films? You will get the answer when the Oslo Palestine Film Festival is launched at this year’s Film from the South festival. Palestinian films are, just like Palestinian people, free of state boundaries and borders.
Film fra Sør is very proud to present this year’s main guest: Nadine Labaki. The maybe most recognised current Arabic director is coming to Oslo on the 5th October 2011 – and you could meet her.
Using west-African musical traditions and poetry as a starting point, Batagraf has developed their own language somewhere between world music and art. On Friday 14th October, they play live at Parkteatret as a part of the Film fra Sør festival.
Films from the South is not only for grown-ups! Last year, we had for the first time a children film programme in cooperation with Barnas Cinematek (the Children Cinematheque), and this year our children programme is twice as big.
This Autumn, the films Afghan Star and Armadillo enter classrooms in Bodø, Trondheim and Asker. 25 000 pupils from all around Norway will have the chance to better understand Afghanistan – with the help of the touring film programme ‘Film fra Sør Norge Rundt’. As many as four times more pupils than in 2010 can thus get a unique experience of a school day – and a completely new understanding of the situation in Afghanistan.
The Film fra Sør Foundation and the Norwegian branch of the United Nations work together on the ‘Film fra Sør Norge Rundt’ project, a film touring programme bringing important films to schools and high schools all over the country. In this regard, the UN’s Stian Bragtvedt conducted an interview with renowned Afghan activist Malalai Joya.
French artist JR’s visually unique documentary Women Are Heroes is officially part of the Dok:Sør programme for this year’s Film fra Sør festival. The film is a travelogue of urban activist JR’s journey through Africa, Asia and South America. He anonymously and secretly transforms streets, buildings, slums, favelas and whole cities into large art galleries.
Tiger Award winner 2011 from Thailand, Eternity, by director Sivaroj Kongsakul is ready for the 21st Films from the South Festival in Oslo. This is a film that potentially could have been supported by SØRFOND, says Artistic Director Lasse Skagen.
Films from the South's debating program The Critical Room will during this year's festival have several focal areas with Brazil and Afghanistan as the most prominent ones. On October 7th it is exactly 10 years since the American invasion of Afghanistan and this fall the retreat starts with full force.
Films from the South shares the nation's grief and sends many warm thoughts to all who are affected by the tragedy in the government quarter and on Utøya.
During the last years, Films from the South's designer Eiliv Gunleiksrud from the agency Saatchi & Saatchi has delivered colourful profiles for the festival and its audience. Now he is ready with this year's design.
This years favourite from the prestigious Un Certain Regard programme in Cannes is ready for the Films from the South festival.
Lucrecia Martel is one of South-Americas most promising directors. Pedro Almodovar made her his protegè, and has been producing her work over the last decade.
The festival Arabian Filmdays is over, with high audience numbers, great movies, interesting guests and a wonderful party.
Films from the South in cooperation with Babel Filmsociety and The Norwegian Filminstitute invited you to a two-day festival dedicated exclusively to Arab films, at Cinemateket Saturday 30th of April and Sunday 1st of May 2011. A great festival sucsess. Arabian Filmdays.
Warm thoughts to the Japanese people, Hirokazu Koreeda who attended the festival in 2009 and all our other friends in the country!
Films from the South's Brynjar Bjerkem reports from the Rotterdam Film Festival
Read our report from the 7th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), 12. - 19. december 2010
”The Iranian regime ”chops of hands and stiches” Jafar Panahis mouth”, says Artistic Director Lasse Skagen at the Oslo Films from the South festival (oct 6-16,2011).
2010 archive: Im Sang-soo`s The Housemaid won the Silver Mirror Award at the 2010 edition of the festival. Read more.
2010 archive: This year’s festival opened on Wednesday with the Arthaus film Women Without Men.
2010 archive: Films from the South, the Norwegian Film Institute and the World Cinema Foundation would like to welcome you to an exhibition opening on the 2nd floor of Filmens Hus Friday October 8th.
2010 archive: We have previously announced that acclaimed director and artist Shirin Neshat will be a guest at this year's Films from the South, but we've got plenty of other exciting guests as well. Read more about them here.
Wednesday 6th October marks the opening of the 20th Films from the South festival, and we are very proud to announce that the opening film will be by director and artist Shirin Neshat.
The 20th. Films from the South Festival's program is now up on the website.
The 20th Films from th South Festival kicks off with a monumental event on October 10th at the Oslo Opera House.
Curious about what Films from the South 2010 will bring? Get the first hints of action here!
HotDocs in Toronto is the most important documentary film festival in North America (IDFA in Amsterdam is the European equivalent).
If currently in Paris, you now have a rare opportunity to experience a specially designed exhibition by Takeshi Kitano.
Shirin Neshat is a significant artist on the international arena. Last year she was awarded the Silver Lion in Venice with her first feature film Women Without Men. Earlier works within phography and installations deals with gender an culture between east and west. FFS is honoured to present the artist at the festival 2010.
This year it will be 20 years since Films from the South started.
During the award ceremony of Films from the South, two prominent guests were present. Honorary Award winner Hirokazu Kore-eda and actor Payam Madjlessi from the Audience Award winner For a Moment, Freedom.
- The background for wanting to try digital screenings was to find out what this was about, and what digitalisation will mean to festivals and the smaller films, states Julie Ova, Managing director of Films from the South.
We joined the opening party at Fugazi to talk to people about the screening of The Milk of Sorrow, and this year’s festival programme.
In 2009 three people have so far been stoned in Iranian prisons. The last public stoning happened in 2007, when a married couple were sentenced for infidelity – with each other.
The film The Stoning of Soraya M portrays the brutal and oppressive life of women in an Iranian village.
Still Walking by Hirokazu Kore-eda is ready for the 19th edition of the Films form the South. Bought by distributor Arthaus for screenings on three of the largest Norwegian film festivals; in Bergen (BIFF), Tromsø (TIFF) and Oslo (FFS), before theatrical release, Kore-eda's film will top an exciting year in international film.
Saturday’s closing ceremony at the Cinematheque took place before a sold-out movie theatre – so sold-out that there was a waiting list for tickets. The hostess of the evening, Hannah Wozene Kvam, guided an audience in a celebratory mood through a dignified yet unglamorous evening of awards and film clips.
The seal of the envelopes have been broken, this year’s award winners are revealed. Hana Makhmalbaf won the Silver Mirror for her film Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
In co-operation with the Norwegian Film Institute, Southern Norway Film Centre and Zoomin, Films from the South invited Norwegian documentary filmmakers to a closed workshop with this year’s guest of honour, Raoul Peck, on October 12th - 14th at Filmens Hus.
During the last decade, the status of documentary films as dry educational films has been disproven in earnest by a number of powerful documentaries that compete with feature films in both quality and appeal. With the new documentary award Dok:Sør, Films from the South provides support for DVD distribution of a documentary that deserves a larger audience than those attending the festival. What qualities should such a film have?
- The media often present countries such as Iran in the light of war and catastrophes. The country is presented as equivalent to mullahs and executions. The hope is that Films from the South will correct this and present a more nuanced view on the country, says the founder and chairman of the board of the festival Dag Asbjørnsen.
The 18th Films from the South festival opened on October 9th, with celebrated guests, live music, dance performances and not to mention the brazilian film Another Love Story.
The Films from the South Festival is hosting the greatest assembly of films in Europe from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The program is now released. Read the Festival Director's proud comments.
One of the films that received most attention during this year's festival in Cannes was the Israeli animated documentary Waltz with Bashir. The original and stunning picture will be screened during Films from the South 2008.
