VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! has been invited to be part of the Opening Gala of the 68th Venice International Film Festival. The festival runs August 31 – September 10, 2011.

With this film Victor Kossakovsky grants himself a childhood wish. Haven’t we all asked ourselves as children where we would come out if we dug a tunnel right through the centre of the earth? Haven’t we all wondered at some point what was happening just at this moment beneath our very feet at the other side of the planet? In this film those reveries turn into reality. In breathtaking images and a stunning montage we go on a trip to the world’s rare inhabited land-to-land antipodes. We discover the wonders and contradictions of nature and people around the globe.
With unprecedented camera movements and exhilarating new perspectives our conventional view of the world is challenged. On the evocative title follows a revolutionary film, that gives three cheers to our planet and its people in all their antagonisms and commonalities: Vivan las Antipodas!

A film by Victor Kossakovsky. ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with Lemming Film (NL), Gema Films (AR), Aplaplac (CL) and ZDF, NHK, VPRO, WDR, in association with arte, YLE and CTC Network Russia. Funded by Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Dutch Film Fund, Argentine Film Fund and Eurimages. Development supported by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and CORFO. Producer: Heino Deckert.

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The premiere of UNDER SNOW takes place in Berlin on the 9th of September, 8 pm at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt within the exhibition Floating Food. The director Ulrike Oettinger is going to present the film in person. For further information check Real Fiction and Ulrike Oettinger.

BAKHMARO by Salomé Jashi will have its International Premiere at Silverdocs 2011. The screenings will take place as part of the Sterling World Feature Competition on June 21 and 23 for details. Salomé Jashi will be present at the festival.

We are very happy about the “BRUNO CAGOL” PRESS AWARD of the Trento Film Festival 2011 for Titus Faschina’s documentary CLOSE TO HEAVEN:

In CLOSE TO HEAVEN we follow Dumitru Stanciu, one of the last mountain shepherds of Europe. As his forefathers did for thousands of years, in summer as in winter he and his herd of sheep roam the far reaches of the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, close to the edge of heaven.

We are very happy that the film EHRE (HONOUR) of Aysun Bademsoy was selected for the 29th Filmfest München. Between the 24th of June and the 2nd of July 2011 EHRE (HONOUR) will celebrate its premiere in the category “Deutsche Fernsehfilme”.

In her film Aysun Bademsoy tries to approach the term “honour” by searching for distinctions and similarities of the term in different sociocultural contexts.

EHRE (HONOUR) is the latest film of the documentary filmmaker Aysun Bademsoy.

Titus Faschina’s documentary CLOSE TO HEAVEN won the WWF Award of the 13th Thessaloniki Doc Fest 2011. Additionally the film received a Special Mention from the ERT3 Broadcasting Award Jury. Congratulations!

In CLOSE TO HEAVEN we follow Dumitru Stanciu, one of the last mountain shepherds of Europe. As his forefathers did for thousands of years, in summer as in winter he and his herd of sheep roam the far reaches of the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, close to the edge of heaven.