Nisimazine Karlovy Vary 2012 #1
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Nisimazine newsletter #1 After having found our way around the en- chanted thermal town of Karlovy Vary, we have now started finding our way around the films in the East of the West Competition in the hope of attaching some meaning to these the tired dichotomy of East & West. In this first newsletter the reader will meet the pro- tagonists of Yuma, a Polish western set on the border with Germany after the fall of Com- munism. Before the fall of Communism is the setting of Milos Forman’s classic The Firemen’s Ball, an hilarious parody of the regime. Last but not least we met with the team behind the Slovak film Made in Aš whose genesis you can read about in our interview. Interview - Made in Aš The East of the West section of KVIFF opened with Made in Aš (Až do mesta Aš), that captures the downwards spiral from poverty and unemployment to prostitution. Director Iveta Grófová and her team talk about their work on this stylisti- cally original piece of the social realism. MORE The Firemen’s Ball Restored classics often come with an intimidating dose of self-importance and grandeur; Milos Forman’s 1967 feature on the contrary stands out for its unassuming genius and timely spirit. Restored classics often come with an intimidating dose of self-importance and gran- deur; Milos Forman’s 1967 feature on the contrary stands out for its unassuming genius and timely spirit. MORE Yuma Taking part in the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s ‘East of the West’ competition, Piotr Mularuk’s debut film, Yuma, offers an almost surreal yet fresh de- piction of a true story of the aftermath of communism in Poland and the harsh reality endured by many living along the conflicted Polish-German border in the 1990’s. MORE review by Giovanni Vimercati (Italy) review by Sara Ishaq (UK) interview by Andreea Dobre (Romania) Karlovy Vary 2012 Made in Aš, dir. Iveta Grófová
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Newsletter covering Karlovy Vary Film festival 2012, focus on the "East of the West" Competition. By Nisi Masa, European Network of Young Cinema
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Nisimazine
newsletter #1
After having found our way around the en-chanted thermal town of Karlovy Vary, we have now started finding our way around the films in the East of the West Competition in the hope of attaching some meaning to these the tired dichotomy of East & West. In this first newsletter the reader will meet the pro-tagonists of Yuma, a Polish western set on the border with Germany after the fall of Com-munism. Before the fall of Communism is the setting of Milos Forman’s classic The Firemen’s Ball, an hilarious parody of the regime. Last but not least we met with the team behind the Slovak film Made in Aš whose genesis you can read about in our interview.
Interview - Made in Aš
The East of the West section of KVIFF opened with Made in Aš (Až do mesta Aš), that captures the downwards spiral from poverty and unemployment to prostitution. Director Iveta Grófová and her team talk about their work on this stylisti-cally original piece of the social realism. MORE
The Firemen’s Ball
Restored classics often come with an intimidating dose of self-importance and grandeur; Milos Forman’s 1967 feature on the contrary stands out for its unassuming genius and timely spirit. Restored classics often come with an intimidating dose of self-importance and gran-deur; Milos Forman’s 1967 feature on the contrary stands out for its unassuming genius and timely spirit. MORE
Yuma
Taking part in the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s ‘East of the West’ competition, Piotr Mularuk’s debut film, Yuma, offers an almost surreal yet fresh de-piction of a true story of the aftermath of communism in Poland and the harsh reality endured by many living along the conflicted Polish-German border in the 1990’s. MORE
review by Giovanni Vimercati (Italy) review by Sara Ishaq (UK)
interview by Andreea Dobre (Romania)
Karlovy Vary 2012
Made in Aš, dir. Iveta Grófová
