<![CDATA[LibertasFilmFestival - news]]> <![CDATA[WE HAVE THE WINNERS!]]> We are happy to announce the winners in the following chategories: BEST FICTIONAL FEATURE AND AUDIENCE AWARD : 'The Secret in Their Eyes' (Director: Juan Jose CampanellA, Spain/Argentina )

 BEST SHORT FEATURE -  'Gulliver ( Director: Zdenko Bašić, Croatia).

MASTER AWARD for excellence in film: Jiri Menzel

TRIBUTE AWARD: Mads Mikkelsen

Congratulations to all of them!

]]> <![CDATA[ LIBERTAS FILM FESTIVAL STARTED PARTNERSHIP WITH MUBI!]]> Libertas Film Festival is proud to have started a relationship with a globally relevant and already quite famous website MUBI (The Auteurs), which is dedicated to festival, classic, arthouse and indie cinema. Thanks to MUBI we are literally opening up to global audience, together with a list of prestigious film festivals that have also decided to take advantage of this unique platform!

 

www.mubi.com

]]> <![CDATA[PRECIOUS’ STAR GABOUREY SIDIBE AT 6th LIBERTAS FILM FESTIVAL!]]> Gabourey Sidibe, a leading actress in an Oscar - nominated film 'Precious' and Lisa Cortes, film's executive producer, will be guests at 6th Libertas Film Festival in Dubrovnik at the regional premiere of the 'Hollywood surprise of the year'.

]]> <![CDATA[MASTER CLASS by DANTE SPINOTTI AT LIBERTAS FILM FESTIVAL!]]> Dante Spinotti, a world–renowned director of photography, will hold a Master Class Session in Dubrovnik.

Dante Spinotti (ASC, AIC), famous for filming such titles as 'Narnia 3', 'L.A. Confidential', 'Public Enemies', 'Heat', 'Insider', 'X-Men: The Last Stand', 'The Last of the Mohicans' and many others, is being organized in the cooperation with 'Nest productions' from Italy, and co-financed by Croatian Audiovisual Centre.

]]> <![CDATA[Libertas Film Festival’s creative director joins the jury of the prestigious international independent film festival in Funchal]]> This year's fifth annual Portugal-based international film festival will take place at the town of Funchal, and one of this year's jury members is our own film critic and journalist Stjepan Hundić.

]]> <![CDATA[Film that opened the 5th LFF wins the Lux Prize]]> French film WELCOME, that opened the 5th  edition of the Libertas Film Festival and had its regional premier in Dubrovnik won this year's European Parliament LUX Film Prize.

 
]]> <![CDATA[Libertas FF Director is a jury member in Tel Aviv]]> Director of the Libertas Film festival, Mia Pećina, is invited to be a part of Tel Aviv's International Children's Festivals jury. The festival will be held from September 23rd to 26th.

]]> <![CDATA[WE HAVE THE WINNERS!!]]> We are happy to announce the winners in the following chategories: Best Feature - LEMON TREE (d: Eran Riklin, Israel, Germany, France), Best Short Feature - CLACSON (d: Tak Kuroha, Italy) and Audience Award - TROUBLED WATER (d: Erik Poppe, Norway).

]]> <![CDATA[TRIBUTE AWARD GOES TO JIM SHERIDAN]]> This year the Libertas Film Festival will present its Tribute award to one of the best known Irish directors - Jim Sheridan!

]]> <![CDATA[VOTE FOR BEST SHORT]]> Now you have the oppertunity to be the jury and vote for the Best Short Film. You can watch and vote for your favourite on the Libertas chanel on tportal.hr: BEST SHORT '09?

 

]]> <![CDATA[2009 Locations]]> In its upcoming edition Libertas will become an Outdoor festival, combining the experience of seeing independent films under the open sky and Dubrovnik's architectural heritage.  

Locations are: the Jadran open-air cinema, Banje city beach and beach Lapad

]]> <![CDATA[5. Libertas Film Festival]]> We officially have the date of the fifth Libertas Film Festival: from June 26th to June 30th 2009. We would like to invite directors, producers, actors and film fans to join us next year.

]]> <![CDATA[WINNERS 2008.]]> Besides the previously mentioned short feature Farewell, we are happy to announce the other winners. This year's best feature is a German film Edge oh heaven, by a young German director Fatih Akin. Best documentary feature is Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired by Marina Zenovich, who will receive the Dubravka award in person. The special Libertas audience award goes to a German feature the Wave by Dennis Gansel.

]]> <![CDATA[Farewell is the Best Short Feature!]]> We are happy to announce that this year's best short feature is Farewell by a young Croatian director Irena Škorić. The film was rated the best by the visitors of www.tportal.hr. Irena will be joining us in Dubrovnik…

 

]]> <![CDATA[Lifetime achievement award goes to Mustafa Nadarević]]> This year's Libertas FF special lifetime achievement award will be handed to Mustafa Nadarević, a well know ex-Yugoslavian actor. He had many recognized achievements in theatre as well as in film and TV. Nadarević is best known for his work in the 1985 film When Father Was Away on Business and he also stared in an Oscar winning film No man's lad (2001).

]]> <![CDATA[Regional premiere of "Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired"]]> Following its European premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the highly praised documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' by the U.S. director Marina Zenovich is going to have its regional premiere at the fourth LIBERTAS Film Festival.

"I have been dreaming of returning to Dubrovnik for a few years now and I am looking forward to coming to the LIBERTAS Film Festival!" said recently Marina Zenovich. The documentary in question is going to have its regional premiere at the upcoming LIBERTAS Film Festival. The Croatian audience will be able to see this memorable and exceedingly interesting documentary about the infamous affair of the legendary film director Roman Polanski, hailed by the Entertainment Weekly as the "documentary of rare fascination and power". The film premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, winning the Best Documentary Editing Award. 

]]> <![CDATA[THIS YEAR'S 4TH LIBERTAS FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES CUBAN PICTURES IN DUBROVNIK]]> After presenting the national cinematography of Portugal i Norway, the Libertas 'Focus' programme will present five films belonging to the exotic Cuban cinematography.

]]> <![CDATA[ "THE COUNTERFEITERS" WIN THE ACADEMY AWARD]]> "THE COUNTERFEITERS", co-produced by Austria and Germany, 'The Counterfeiters' by Stefan Ruzowitzky which opened the last year's Libertas Film Festival won the Academy Award for best foreign language film!

]]> <![CDATA[2007 Winners Announced]]> Today the Jury members had a very difficult decision to make - it was really hard to choose one film in each category for the winners of the 3rd Libertas Film Festival!

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