Dan Chişu's first feature film has been selected for this year's FilmFest Hamburg, in the Eurovisuell section. A festival which features several heavyweight European films included the low budget drma meant to wake up adults to the new reality of the internets. WebSiteStory follows an 18-year-old girl, named Laura, who spends a night in a club with her friend Mira. During the night, she gets drunk and smokes her first joint. Next day in the morning, Laura can't remember anything and finds out that her friend is dead. Logically, she wants to know what happened to Mira and starts to look out through Mira's YouTube posts, hoping she discovers the truth. She wants to avenge Mira‘s death no matter what. And, in the end, her story of revenge returns to the internet, the place where it all began. WebSiteStory is just the story of a premeditated murder out of...
- 10/4/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Apart from the classic auteurs in the Special Presentations section, the 39th Festival du nouveau cinéma will be filled to the gills in new works from across the globe. I view the extremely popular film festival as sort of a B-side for film festival circuit items that generally find a spot in a major film fest such as Cannes and afterwards would normally fall through the cracks. Think the Nyff's much wilder, Canadian cousin. Over 295 films - this includes shorts, fiction and documentary, animation, retrospectives, tributes, professional panels, outdoor interactive installations, the festival which takes place between the 13th to the 24th of October, furiously promotes not only world talent, but local French Canadian filmmakers. Among the notable titles, we have Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro volte, Olivier Assayas' Carlos and Alex de la Iglesia's The Last Circus and Wang Bing will be in town for a Master Class for Venice-winning The Ditch.
- 9/28/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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