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stanley cup 7-28 has said that its 2006 edition willsee a slight change in its second weekend programme. The festival s awards ceremony will now revert back to the last Sundaynight, having been held on the last Saturday for the past two years. TheSaturday night film will now be a competition film with the Palmed Or winner screening again on Sunday night after thetrophies are handed out.Artistic director Thierry Fremaux said he hadnoticed that many festivals have a surge of energy the first weekend and dieoff by the second: We want to work on the second weekend and prove that afestival lasts. Festival president Gilles Jacob also said planned works to build extrascreening rooms underneath the Palais had been haltedfor the moment due to concerns about potential water leakage. B
stanley uk ecause thefestival is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2007, and becausethe work will take a few years, it will likely not be finished until 2010 or2011.Cannes alsowelcomed new general manager Catherine Demier to thefold on Wednesday morning during an informal press breakfast at its Parisheadquarters.Having taken up the post this week, Demiersaid though she knows the festival well from the outside, the mythicorganization was still somewhat mysterious to her. Demier noted, I ve lived thefestival in multiple ways, both professionally and as an invited guest. Shehas attended the festival since 1998 when she was working at the C
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stanley us ist for the German Film Awards.The Berlin International Film Festival is overhauling the German Cinema sidebar for the next European Film Market in a bid to improve its support for local films.Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick said the move is another significant step towards promoting German cinema.The Berlinale, the German Film Academy and German Films will be partners in a new section, to be renamed German Cinema 鈥?LOLA@Berlinale, and it will feature films, childrens films and documentaries that are selected by the Academy f
stanley cup or the German Film Awards Lolas .The films will be shown once in each of the festivals cinemas and screenings will be open to accredited national and international delegates, as well as members of the German Film Academy, who are eligible to participate in the nomination for the Lola short-list.In addition, German Films, which has supported German Cinema in the past by subsidising the English subtitling of the selected films, will continue to provide support to the new section.Until now, about 17 titles were selected for the showcase each year ranging from Michael Hanekes The White Ribbon, Til Schweigers Rabbit Without Ears 2, Robert Cibis and Lilian Francks Pianomania, and S枚nke Wortmanns Pope Jean. Titles are selected by programmer Heinz Badewitz.Th
stanley germany e new sidebar is expected to include more films as at least 20 titles are put forward for the Lolas in the feature category
