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With a catalogue of over 3000 short movies, they represent every genre across multiple platforms. Their titles include past Oscar winners and nominees, festival favourites and revered classics. The company is headquartered in London with additional offices in Paris, New York and Los Angeles.

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Greenland Eyes International Film Festival will take place in Arsenal Cinema Berlin in the spring of 2012. The festival will highlight films from Greenland as well as other filmic examples that deal with Greenlandic images while produced in foreign countries. With Greenland Eyes International Film Festival it will be for the first time that the Berlin audience is offered a chance to gain an insight into a range of films dealing specifically with various representations of Greenland.

Incorporates: Screenings, workshops, lectures, artist talks.

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Arsenal Cinema

AIFF focuses on the work of new filmmakers and films presenting new approaches and innovative solutions to limited budgets. As the festival venues are all closely connected with prominent film schools, the audiences are unusually sophisticated in their appreciation of quality film.

In May 2011 we’ll show more than 70 films in our three screening venues in Miami, Los Angeles, and New York.

http://www.film-fest.us/

ECHOES has been selected for the London Underground Film Festval, which takes place at the Horse Hospital in London, December 2011
http://www.londonundergroundfilmfestival.org.uk/

From the official press release:

Ivalo Frank has won a prestigious Award of Merit from the Best Shorts Competition. The award was given for Ivalo Frank’s experimental documentary ECHOES, which takes place on a little island in Greenland where we meet Anna Kuitse and her husband. The film takes the viewer on a hypnotic journey through remnants from the Cold War and the Second World War left in the midst of breath-taking nature. ECHOES features exceptional story line, location, visuals, sound and main characters.

“It was very important to me, to work not just with the sounds and beauty of the Greenlandic landscape, but to also combine this with some of humanities more brutal past”

The best Shorts Competition recognises film professionals who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity, and those who produce standout entertainment or contribute to profound social change.

www.bestshorts.net

Faith, Hope and Greenland is a visual and poetic journey into the very hearts of the people of Greenland. Told in a natural, honest and non-accusative manner, its four main protagonists advise the viewer on the underbelly of colonisation, its effects on an ancient, nomadic culture and on the individual mind.

ECHOES is a film about the foreign presence in Greenland, about abandoned airbases and radar stations. It’s also a love story between two people who have met in the stunning landscape of history, in the sounds of music. Documentary, 26 min.

“At one point someone said to me that victims of incest adds diversity to the world, and however much I felt like kicking his head in, I must agree that, however nuts we might be, we are individuals.”
(from the film)

To be realized in Berlin 2011.