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!
Nadine Labaki is Films From the South’s main guest this year. The Lebanese director and actor is considered to be one of the most important directors in the Arab world. She has made the feature Caramel (2007), which was screened at Films From the South in 2007. This year she brings with her the new feature Where Do We Go Now?, winner of the audience award at the film festival in Toronto recently. Labaki will attend the opening ceremony at Vika cinema on Thursday October 6 and will give an Artist Talk in Vika 2 after the screening of Where Do We Go Now?
Eric Khoo is a Singaporean director who guests this year’s Films From the South with his three features Be With Me (2005), My Magic (2008) and Tatsumi (2011). The latter is an animated tribute movie to the Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. In cooperation with the Norwegian Film Institute, we have organized The Tatsumi Exhibition during the festival. You can meet Eric Khoo during the exhibition opening Friday October 7 at 6 pm and at the Deichmanske Library on Grünerløkka and The House of Literature the next day. Eric Khoo is in Oslo from October 6 – 11.
Djo Tunda Wa Munga is a Congolese filmmaker. He guests Films from the South with his feature film debut Viva Riva! – a gangster thriller from Kinshasa which has awoken great enthusiasm around the world. For this film he won the award for best director at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2011. Munga visits the festival from October 12 – 15, and will pitch his new film project during the SØRFOND forum. You can meet him at the screenings of Viva Riva!
Anocha Suwichakornpong is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter and producer. In cooperation with Chinese Wang Jing and Singaporean Kaz Cai she has made the film Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner consisting of three sequences made by each director. Anocha Suwichakornpong is in Oslo to pitch her new film project during SØRFOND forum and will also be present at the screenings of Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Malu de Martino is a Brazilian director. She has made several films about women's identity, including Mulheres do Brazil (2006). So Hard to Forget won the award for best actress in the Sâo Paulo Association of Art Critic Awards and has been screened at several festivals. Martino will pitch her new film project during SØRFOND forum and will be present at the screenings of So Hard to Forget.
Fernando Pérez is an award-winning and highly acclaimed Cuban director who has worked with film since the 1970’s. His three films Life Is to Whiste (1998), Havana Suite (2003) and José Martí: The Eye of the Canary (2010) are screened in the program section called Director Special Portrait and you can meet Pérez during these screenings.
Pål Hollender is a Swedish filmmaker and performance artist, best known for controversial documentaries like Bye Bye Beauty (2001) and Pelle the Policeman (1998). His most recent documentary Finding Ali is screened in Doc: South and in the event series The Critical Room at this year’s festival. Thursday October 13 at 6 pm you can meet Pål Hollender during an Artist Talk at Filmens hus. Pål Hollender is in Oslo from October 6 to October 14.
Leila Kilani is a Moroccan director who has previously directed several documentaries. Her feature debut is On The Edge, which was screened during the Director’s Fort Night program at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Kilani is in Oslo during SØRFOND forum October 14 – 15, where she will be pitching her new film project.
Pamela Yates is an American director who guests Films from the South with her new documentary Granito about Guatemala’s bloody civil war. This theme was also present in Yates’ documentary When the Mountains Tremble (1983). Yates has previously won numerous awards for her documentaries and during the festival she will participate in one of the events in The Critical Room on Wednesday October 12 at 6 pm. Yates is in Oslo with her husband, producer Paco de Onis, from October 11 - 16.
Cassandra Freeman is an American actress who has starred in films with Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster and Chris Rock. She plays one of the leading roles in Kinyarwanda, which is screened in the program section African Stories. The film won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Freeman is in Oslo from October 9 – 13.
Marcel Rasquin is a Venezuelan director who guests Films from the South with his directorial debut Brother. The film has won several awards at festivals in Moscow, Sâo Paulo and Havana, and was also Venezuela’s Oscar contribution. During this year’s festival Brother opens the program section New Horizons on Vika Cinema Sunday October 9 at 6 pm where you can meet the director.
Sasson Gabai is one of Israel’s most famous actors. He has won several awards, including his role performance in the film The Band’s Visit (2007). In the film Restoration, which is screened in the program section New Horizons, Gabai holds the leading role as the aging and depressed Fidelman. The film won the award for best film at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival and also won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award at this year’s Sundance festival.
Matías Bize is a young, talented Chilean director. We screen his three films In Bed (2005), About Crying (2007) and The Life of Fish (2010) in the program section Director Special Portrait. The Life of Fish was Chile’s Oscar contribution and won the prestigious Goya Award for Best Spanish-language foreign film last year. Matías Bize in in Oslo from October 11 – 16.
Seyfi Teoman is a Turkish film director and screenwriter who visits the festival with a warm and romantic feelgood movie about friendship and love between two middle-aged best buddies and a young girl. Our Grand Despair was screened during the Berlin International Film Festival and won the Audience Award and Special Jury Prize during the Istanbul International Film Festival. Teoman guests Oslo in the period October 12 - 15.
In The Critical Room you can also meet the following international guests:
Irshad Manji is a Canadian author and activist. Her book The Trouble With Islam Today (2004) became an international bestseller and Manji has recently released her new book Allah, Liberty and Love. The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom. During the festival we will screen her documentary Faith Without Fear, and you can meet Manji in The Critical Room on Friday October 14 at 6 pm at The House of Literature.
Simon Forster is the Country Director for the Afghanistan Committee, visiting Films From the South the festival to discuss aid work in Afghanistan after the screening of the film Skateistan.
Alice Thomas is head of the climate division of Refugees International. She participates in a debate after the screening of Climate Refugees.
Rachel Seifert is the director of the documentary Cocaine Unwrapped, which is to be screened during the event Journalists in Conflict Zones. The film is about the drug war in Latin America.
Romana Cauchhioli, leader of the Antislavery International and director of the documentary No Man’s Land Ananya Chakraborti visit the festival to debate international trafficking.
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