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Cannes 2023 :: Killers of the Flower Moon :: Martin Scorsese’s Bitterest Crime Epic Martin Scorsese triumphs yet again. A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Full Winners List This year’s jury, headed by Kristen Stewart, gave
the Golden Bear award to the French documentary “On the Adamant..” The Silver Bear for
Best Lead Performance notably went to child star Sofia Otero for “20,000 Species of Bees.”
Philippe Garrel's “The Plough” was.. |
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BAFTA 2023 :: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Dominates BAFTA Awards With Seven Wins “All Quiet on the Western Front” dominated the BAFTA Awards in London on
Sunday night with a record-breaking seven wins for a film not in the English languag,
including for Best Director.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Golshifteh Farahani :: Talks Role Of
Art In Iran “In A Dictatorship Like
Iran, Art Is Essential, It’s Like Oxygen.” Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who is at the
Berlin Film Festival as a member of Kristen Stewart’s jury, has talked passionately about the
importance of art.. |
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SIFF 2023 :: Shirin Ebadi :: Until We Are Free
This is the amazing, at times harrowing,
simply astonishing story of a woman who would never give up, no matter the risks. The first
Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around
the globe.. |
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IFFR 2023 Awards :: 'Le spectre de Boko Haram' and
'Endless Borders' are the victors Cyrielle Raingou’s documentary took home the Tiger Award, whilst Abbas
Amini’s feature won the VPRO Big Screen Award, as the Dutch gathering celebrated its in-
person comeback.. |
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Winners of the 2022 ‘Sepanta Awards’ :: 15th Annual
Iranian Film Festival This year, the
festival presented 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video.. |
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Opinion :: Will Venice Protests Help or Hurt filmmakers
in Iran? As the Venice Film Festival
celebrates Iranian cinema — with four Iranian films screening at the 79th Biennale — back
home in Tehran, Iranian filmmakers and artists are facing the harshest crackdown in
decades.. |
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Biennale Cinema 2022 :: Awards Ceremony
Official Awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Announced by the five international Juries, chaired by Julianne Moore, during the Awards
Ceremony that was held on Saturday 10th September at 7:00 pm..
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Coming: 15th Annual Iranian Film Festival! : San
Francisco: Sep. 17-18 This year, the
festival presents 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video. We are happy and proud to.. |
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Leth, Joergen
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Date of birth
June 14, 1937, Aarhus, Denmark
Mini biography
Jørgen Leth (June 14, 1937, Aarhus, Denmark)
Born on 14 June 1937 in Aarhus, Denmark, Leth studied literature and anthropology in Aarhus and Copenhagen and was a cultural critic (jazz, theatre, film) for leading Danish newspapers from 1959 to 1968.
His interest in Polish anthropologist Bronis³aw Malinowski had a profound influence on his work. He traveled in Africa (1961), South America and India (1966) and Southeast Asia (1970–71).
His first book was published in 1962. He has written 10 volumes of poetry and eight non-fiction books.
Film career
Leth made his first film in 1963 and has since made 40 more, many distributed worldwide. His most acclaimed is a 1968 short, Det perfekte menneske (The Perfect Human), which also featured in the 2003 film
The Five Obstructions made by Leth and Lars von Trier. Leth's sports documentaries bring an epic, almost mythic, dimension to the field, as seen in Stars and Watercarriers (Stjernerne og vandbærerne) (1973) and A Sunday in Hell (En forårsdag i helvede) (1977).
"Curiosity and the sense of beauty are the driving force in Leth's films, and with admirably tenacious consistency he has cultivated his surface fascination". --Morten Piil (film critic)
He has been a creative consultant for the Danish Film Institute (1971–73, 1975–77) as well as chairman of the Institute's board (1977–82). He has also been a professor at the Danish National Film School in Copenhagen, at the State Studiocenter in Oslo and has lectured at UCLA, Berkeley, Harvard and other American universities.
Leth covered the Tour de France for Denmark's TV 2 from 1988 until 2005 as the expert commentator in partnership with journalist Jørn Mader, and again from 2009 in partnership with Dennis Ritter and Rolf Sørensen. In 1999, he was appointed Danish honorary consul in Haiti.
Controversy
He attracted controversy in Denmark after publication of his autobiography Det perfekte menneske (The Imperfect Human). It included a graphic account of sexual relations with the 17-year-old daughter of his cook in Haiti. This created a media storm in Denmark, partly because of his plan to make a film called Det erotiske menneske ("Erotic Man"), funded by the Danish Film Institute, in collaboration with DR (Danmarks Radio) and Nordisk Film and TV Commission. The controversy upset several groups in Denmark. In October 2005, due to the controversy, he was dismissed as commentator with TV2.
Leth then considered to quit finishing his film Det erotiske menneske (Erotic Man), but close friend and fellow filmmaker Lars von Trier met with Leth and promised to let himself credit as executive producer on the film, in order to support Leth's artistic work. Erotic Man premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010. The film received lacklustre reviews which deemed it "dirty-old-man cinema" and colonialist exploitation.
Leth has been married three times and has four children: Asger (film director),[ Karoline, Kristian and Tomas.
Leth moved to Haiti in the late 1980s and referred to it as his second home. He lived in Jacmel from 1991 until 2010, when the Haiti earthquake destroyed his rented home and most of his possessions. In 2013, Leth was still living in Haiti for about six months of the year, but with friends on the northern coast.
Honors
Retrospectives of Leth's work have been held at the National Film Theatre in London (1989), in Rouen, France (1990), at the American Film Institute in Washington D.C. (1992), in Mumbai, India (1996), New York (2002), Sao Paulo (2003), Toronto (2004), Florence (2005), Rome (2006), Sao Paulo (2008), Warsaw (2008) and Tehran (2008) and at the Athens International Film Festival in Athens (2009).
Filmography
Director
2022 Music for Black Pigeons 2019 I Walk | Jeg Gaar (Documentary) 2016 Lyrikporten – 28 danske digtere 2015 Pelota II (Documentary) 2013 Jeg taler til jer - John Kørners verden (Documentary) 2010 Erotic Man | Det erotiske menneske 2009 Most of the Time (Short) 2005 Aarhus (Documentary short) 2003 The Five Obstructions | De fem benspænd (Documentary) 2003 New Scenes from America (Documentary short) 2002 Drømmere (Documentary) 1999 Jeg er levende - Søren Ulrik Thomsen, digter (Documentary short) 1995 Haiti. Uden titel (Documentary) 1993 Michael Laudrup - en fodboldspiller (Documentary) 1992 Traberg (Documentary) 1989 Dansk litteratur (Documentary short) 1989 Notater om kærligheden 1987 Composer Meets Quartet (Video documentary short) 1987 Notater fra Kina (Documentary) 1986 Det legende menneske (Documentary) 1983 Udenrigskorrespondenten 1983 Pelota (Documentary) 1982 66 scener fra Amerika (Documentary short) 1981 Step on Silence (Documentary) 1979 Kalule (Documentary) 1979 Sanct Hansaften-spil (TV Movie) 1979 At danse Bournonville (Documentary) 1978 Peter Martins, en danser (Documentary) 1977 A Sunday in Hell | En forårsdag i Helvede (Documentary) 1975 Det gode og det onde (Documentary) 1974 Den umulige time (Documentary) 1974 Klaus Rifbjerg (Documentary short) 1974 Stjernerne og vandbærerne (Documentary) 1973 Eddy Merckx i nærheden af en kop kaffe (TV Movie) 1972 Kinesisk bordtennis (Documentary short) 1972 Livet i Danmark (Documentary short) 1970 Dyrehaven: Den romantiske skov (Documentary short) 1970 Eftersøgningen (Short) 1970 Motion Picture (Short) 1970 Teatret i de grønne bjerge (Documentary short) 1970 Frændeløs (segment "Interview med hippiepige") 1969 Dyrehavefilmen (Short) 1969 Jens Otto Krag (Short) 1968 Nær himlen, nær jorden (Documentary short) 1968 Ofelias blomster (Short) 1968 Det perfekte menneske (Short) 1964 Se frem til en tryg tid (Short) 1963 Stopforbud | Stop for bud (Short)
Director - Selected filmography
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Music for Black Pigeons (2022)
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I Walk | Jeg Gaar (2020, Documentary)
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Lyrikporten | 28 danske digtere (2016)
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Det erotiske menneske | Erotic Man (2010)
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Aarhus (2005)
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The Five Obstructions | De fem benspaend (2003)
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A Sunday in Hell | En foraarsdag i Helvede (1977, Documentary, sport)
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Klaus Rifbjerg (1974, documentary , short)
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Stjernerne og vandbaererne | The Stars and the Water Carriers (1974, Documentary, Sport)
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Det perfekte menneske (1968, short)
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Stopforbud | Stop for Bud (Short 1963)
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