The aims of the festival are presenting, teaching, confronting and experimenting the art of the moving image. Always searching for artistic innovation, the Festival produces and exhibits interdisciplinary projects in animation and moving image.

The program will comprise the following areas:

• Animation Short Film Competition;
• English retrospective;
• Interdiciplinary Artistic Projects;
• Workshops and Seminars;
• Monstrinha - films for younger audiences;
• exhibitions;
• Monstra editions.

If you want more information regarding Monstra Festival, visit its official website.

In parallel to the Official Selection, the Festival also runs non-competitive film programmes dedicated to discovering other aspects of cinema. These range from the historical nature of Cannes Classics, to the directorial debuts of the Caméra d’Or and the more public arena of the Cinéma de la Plage.

Cannes Classics: Since 2004, the Festival has celebrated the heritage of film with Cannes Classics. The programme’s aim is to highlight works of the past, presented with brand new or restored prints, and to give them a second lease of life in museums, cinemas and on DVD.

Cannes Classics is held at the Buñuel Theatre and offers a diversified thematic programme which is particularly focused on: new or restored prints, tributes to filmmakers or foreign cinema, documentaries on filmmaking.

The Caméra d’or: created in 1978, this programme focuses on the first features in any selections (official Selection, Directors’ Fortnight, International Critics’ Week) and awards the best of them.

Cinema de la Plage: opened in order to bring Cannes to the masses, the Cinéma de la plage is an outdoor theatre on the Macé beach screening films Out of Competition or from the programme Cannes Classics.

Have access to the complete program of the festival, as well as other details and curiosities, by visiting its official website.

The ending ceremony of the 5th International Independent Film Festival happens today at 09.30 p.m., in Cinema São Jorge, where the winner films will be announced. After that will be screened the film “It´s a Free World”, by Ken Loach.
The most seen films are “My Blueberry Nights”, by Wong Kar Wai, “Happy Go Lucky”, by Mike Leigh, “Joy Division”, de Grant Gee, “Mister Lonely”, de Harmony Korine, “Go Go Tales”, by Abel Ferrara, “Uprise”, by Sandro Aguilar and “Sleepwalking Land”, by Teresa Prata.

International Competition

Feature films:

EL ASALTANTE
by Pablo Fendrik - Argentina, 2007, 71′

CHARLY
by Isild Le Besco - France, 2007, 95′

CORRECTION
by Thanos Anastopoulos - Greece, 2007, 83′

THE FLOWER BRIDGE
by Thomas Ciulei - Romenia, 2008, 87′

LA FRANCE
by Serge Bozon - France, 2007, 102′

MOMMA’S MAN
by Azazel Jacobs - USA, 2008, 98′

THE MOTHER
by Antoine Cattin e Pavel Kostomarov - Switzerland, 2007, 80′

NIGHT TRAIN
by Diao Yinan - China, 2007, 91′

PAS A NIVELL
by Pere Vilà i Barceló - Spain, 2007, 103′

PINK
by Alexander Voulgaris - Greece, 2007, 90′

WONDERFUL TOWN
by Aditya Assarat - Thailand, 2007, 90′

UPRISE
by Sandro Aguilar - Portugal, 2008

Short Films

National Competition:

Feature Films:
ACCESS ROAD
by Nathalie Mansoux – Portugal, 2008, 90’

ÁLVARO LAPA: A LITERATURA
by Jorge Silva Melo – Portugal, 2007, 100’

ENDGAME
by António Borges Correia – Portugal, 2007, 71’

SLEEPWALKING LAND
by Teresa Prata – Portugal, 2007, 96’

THE ZONE
by Sandro Aguilar – Portugal, 2008, 99’

Short Films

INDIELISBOA is a privileged event to meet the most recent and interesting works of independent cinema from all over the world.
The main aim of the Festival is to discover new films and new directors, in the universe of independent cinema.
Keeping its attention on the author’s creativity and independence, in four years INDIELISBOA was able to become the most important Portuguese festival.

For further information visit the official website:

http://www.indielisboa.com/amit/eng/news.php

Internationale Filmfestspiele

Berlin, 07 - 17 February 2008

http://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html

The Glasgow Film Festival 2008 is scheduled to be held between 14 and 24 February.
Opening the film festival is  Woody Allen’s film Cassandra’s Dream, starring Ewan Mcgregor and Colin Farell. Ryan Gosling in Lars and the Real Girl will close the film festival.

The festival is still going strong 27 years after its inception . A representative for GFS, Mr Sheldon Weeks, said this non-profit organization began with a 35mm projector at the National Museum in the Little Theatre in 1980.
GFS mission has remained the same, to show films that are not normally available in Botswana.
GFS has managed to bring to its members African, Cuban, German, Swedish, Chinese and Russian movies.
GFS kick-started the year with January being a new and old classics movie month, February as an Italian Film Festival and March as a Subcontinent Trilogy movie time.
The first movie of January was the 1994 Belgian/Italian movie called Farrell.

The 14th Annual Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival is still five months away but the deadline to enter is now just a matter of days.
First the Worldwide Short Film Festival. The deadline to enter one of the most important festivals in Canada is February 1, 2008. In addition to being one of only three Canadian festivals accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in 2008 the WSFF will become one of the first North American festivals to operate a fully digitized Marketplace Library.
The festival will run from June 5th to 10th and winners of the Best Live-Action Short and Best Animated Short are eligible for the Academy Awards. Canadian award winners are eligible for the Genie Awards and the festival also qualifies winners for the prestigious BAFTA Awards.
2008 Edmonton Film Festival - The festival itself will run from September 26th to October 4th.
Earlybird deadline - March 15 and the Festival is looking for films that fall into three broad categories and one special catch-all category:
Feature Films: “dramatic stories over 75-minutes, from Canada and around the world.” These films are programmed into six streams: Family films, American Indies, Digital Revolution, Edge of Night, Oh, Canada! and World Cinema.
Light Documentary: documentaries that engage, enlighten, and cause people to smile. Light Documentary films must be 70-minutes or longer.
Short Films: must be 20-minutes or less.

Sundance Film Festival will take place between January 17-27, in Park City, Utah.

Visit the website of the festival.

There you can read the Online Film Guide and additional information concerning the festival.