Ai Maeda is a Japanese actress, singer and model.
THe Father is a 1996 Iranian film by director Majid Majidi. It won a number of awards at film festivals both within Iran and internationally. The word pedar means father in Persian.
Farkhondeh Torabi is an internationally acclaimed Persian animation director.
Shangoul And Mangoul is a 2000 Iranian animated film directed by Farkhondeh Torabi and Merteza Ahadi. Its runtime is 18 minutes and it is based on a Persian folktale.
The Italian is a 2005 Russian drama film directed by Andrei Kravchuk. The screenplay by Andrei Romanov, inspired by a true story, focuses on a young boy's determined search for his mother.
The cinema of Mongolia has been strongly influenced by the cinema of Russia, which differentiates it from cinematic developments in the rest of Asia.
My Friend Joe is a 1996 film directed by Chris Bould starring Schuyler Fisk and John Cleere. The film is based on the 1985 Swedish novel Janne, min vän by Peter Pohl.
Nila Madhab Panda is a film producer. Panda has produced and directed over 70 diverse and cutting edge films, documentaries and shorts. These films are based on important social issues such as climate change, child labor, education, water issues, sanitation and many other developmental issues in India. His films have won him several awards and critical acclaim. Most of his films have unique insights drawn from his own life, the metaphorical distance that he has traversed from a small obscure village based in one of the remotest parts of India, to metropolitan cities across the globe. His films are entertaining, yet portray profusely socially relevant themes; driving home the point that films can be a powerful medium of positive social change.
The First of May is a 1998 independent film by Paul Sirmons and Gary Rogers, starring Julie Harris, Charles Nelson Reilly, Robin O'Dell, Tom Nowicki, Joe Dimaggio, Dan Byrd and Mickey Rooney. It premiered on October 12, 1998, in Buena Vista, Florida, at the FMPTA Annual Party. It is notable for being the last film in which Joe Dimaggio appeared.
The Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation is based in Wiesbaden and chartered to preserve and curate a collection of the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau as well as a collection of other German films totaling to about 6,000 produced between 1890 and 1960. The foundation is owned by the Federal Republic of Germany. The "private non-profit foundation" was founded in 1966 out of fear that classic German cinema's original stock, and the rights to these films, would be sold off internationally. The stock was originally owned by Bertelsmann. The foundation maintains about 80% of Germany's forbidden Nazi-era films and acts as a gate keeper for public access to these films via archives and curated public screenings.
Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen is a Swedish film directed by Ella Lemhagen which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 1 October 1999, based on the books about Tsatsiki written by Moni Nilsson-Brännström. It won the 1999 Guldbagge Award for Best Film and the 2000 Poznan Silver Goats award for Best Foreign Feature Movie at 18th Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival.
Cinema of Kazakhstan refers to the film industry based in Kazakhstan. Cinema in Kazakhstan can be traced back to the early 20th century. Today, Kazakhstan produces approximately fifteen full-length films each year.
Hossein Abedini is an Iranian actor. His debut film was Pedar (Father), which was released in 1996 and directed by Majid Majidi. He received critical acclaim after portraying Lateef, a 17-year-old native Iranian boy in the 2001 film Baran, which was also directed by Majid Majidi. His other films include Rasm-e ashegh-koshi in 2004, Wind Blows in the Meadow (2009) and Rouyidan Dar Bad in 2012.
Alias Maria is a 2015 Colombian drama film directed by José Luis Rugeles Gracia. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It received the Golden Goats Award for the Best Feature Movie for the Young People at the 2016 Ale Kino! Festival. It was also selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but was not nominated.
The 33rd annual Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival was held from 29 November to 6 December 2015. A number of 157 movies, released between the years of 1965 and 2015 took part.
The 16th annual Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival was held from 27 April to 1 May 1998. A number of 47 movies took part.
The 32nd annual Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival was held from 30 November to 7 December 2014. A number of 115 movies, took part, some of them only in the non-competitive section.
The 18th annual Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival was held from 15 to 20 May 2000. A number of 54 movies took part.
Children KinoFest is an annual international film festival for children and teenagers, founded in Kiev, Ukraine in 2014. The festival takes place at the end of May, and is held in various Ukrainian cities. This national event, held throughout the country cultivates an appreciation film and an introduction to the filmmaking industry to the young public. Owlet Charlie is a logo, mascot and symbol of Children KinoFest. This character is based on the picture, created by 7-year-old Artem Rassadnikov from Donetsk. Charlie is named after the great Charlie Chaplin, who attended 125 years in 2014. The event has recently partnered with Odessa International Film Festival, also based in Ukraine.
