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THE 19 th FILMS FROM THE SOUTH FESTIVAL
8 - 18 OCTOBER 2009
The Golden Bear winner from this year’s film festival in
Berlin, The Milk of Sorrow, will open the 2009 Films from
the South Festival and thereby set the standard for ten
eventful days. Vika Kino, Klingenberg, Ringen and the
Cinematheque in Oslo will become the arena for highlights
from international film festivals like Rotterdam, Berlin,
Ouagadogou, Guadalajara and Cannes.
Especially noteworthy are Films from the South’s retrospectives
on Hirokazu Kore-eda and Carlos Reygadas. Two
of the most important voices of World Cinema today, that
mark the art of film with their own distinct approach. Hirokazu
Kore-eda will visit Norway in conjunction with the
national premiere and theatrical release of his masterpiece
Still Walking. Carlos Reygadas will hold a three-day Master
Class for Norwegian filmmakers, as well as participate
in the seminar Platform Norway/Mexico, an initiative to
further co-operative efforts and co-productions between the
two countries. To Films from the South it is a great honor
to be the host of two such renowned directors, and we regard
it as an important function of our work to be an arena
for such encounters between filmmakers from the North
and the South.
New this year is our Gala Screenings at Ringen Kino.
Ringen is a fully digitalised cinema and the screenings will
consist of previews of upcoming films to be released this
fall. Norway is a world leader in the implementation of digital
cinemas. Films from the South is concerned that also
films with a narrower appeal shall benefit from this technical
development. The festival’s effort in this department is
also an attempt to gage how the situation will become for
festivals in the future when movie theatres will only have
equipment for screening films in the DCP format (Digital
Cinema Package).
Latin American cinema has distinguished itself with
countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Mexico leading
the way. This year, films from Chile and Colombia as well
have been much talked about at festivals all over the globe.
Films from the South will follow with a mini-focus on
WELCOME 3
both of these countries. Through the Film Pool co-operation,
the festival has secured this year’s Cannes contribution
from Colombia, The Wind Journeys. The Film Pool is
a co-operative effort between the three Norwegian festivals
BIFF, TIFF and FFS, the distributor Arthaus and the TV
channel NRK. The goal is to further films from Asia, Africa
and Latin America. During its ten year existence this
co-operation has resulted in 30 films from these continents
enjoying a long life at festivals, in theatrical release and
on national TV. This is an important initiative in order to
give a film-loving audience a wider choice, also beyond the
intense days of our festival.
Lasse Skagen Julie Ova
Creative Director Managing Director