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Updated: February 1 2010, 20:45 CET
ROTTERDAM: Last week the International Rotterdam Film Festival 2010 opened its door to the public. This years edition of this major annual film festival promoting alternative, innovative and non-commercial films. The festival highlights include Bright Future, a platform for filmmakers of the future, presenting the most important, idiosyncratic and adventurous new work by novice makers from all over the world. Among the films presented are ‘At the Very Bottom of Everything’ (Paul Agusta, Indonesia); Elbowroom (Ham Kyoung-Rock, South Korea); Mijn Enschede (Astrid Bussink, The Netherlands); Skeletons (Nick Whitfield, United Kingdom) and A Summer Family (Iwana Masaki, Japan).The first Rotterdam film festival - then called 'Film International' - was organized in June 1972 under the inspired leadership of Huub Bals. From the beginning, the festival has profiled itself as a promotor of alternative, innovative and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries.
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Updated: December 16 2009, 19:15 CET
MUNICH: This month Munich celebrates its Tollwood Winter Festival 2009. This years edition of the annual cultural winter festival with the theme ‘Heaven and Hell’ started just before the first Advent Sunday and offers a Christmas market through December 23 and cultural events up to New Year’s Eve.Read more
Updated: November 9 2009, 10:40 CET
GENEVA: Last week Musee Rath in the Swiss city Geneva opened her door to ‘Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)’ major retrospective exhibition dedicated to the major 20th century Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966).Read more
Updated: November 24 2009, 15:33 CET
AMSTERDAM: Although there is now snow yet, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam already presents its visitors with some winter amusement with the exhibition ‘Hendrick Avercamp Little Ice Age’ the first survey of winter landscapes by the Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634).Read more
Updated: October 26 2009, 10:20 CET
PARIS: Until January 25 the Galeries National du Grand Palais in Paris presents De Byzance à Istanbul (From Byzantine to Istanbul) a major exhibition bringing together around 300 objects from Turkish, French and international public collections, presenting the different stages of Istanbul’s history.Read more
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