Stories about Film from May, 2007
Belarus: Minsk Movie Posters
TOL's Belarus writes about movie posters in Minsk – which “some people call […] one of the main tourist attractions of the Belarusian capital.”
Korea: Conquered by Spiderman
Korean movies are conquered by a spider man from the U.S.A.! The Movie, “Spiderman 3″ occupies more than 30 percent of all screens of Korean movie theaters, 816 screens. It brought out the issue of monopoly of Hollywood films in Korean movie theaters and people who are engaged in the...
Ukraine: Hutz Documentary Trailer
On YouTube, Olechko has found a trailer to the new documentary about Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz.
Bhutan: Film Awards
Visit Bhutan on the National Filmfare awards. “The Bhutan National Film Awards for the year 2007 saw a stunning packed Clock Tower Square on 2nd May night coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Third King , His Majesty Jigme Dorji Wangchuk. The events was organized by the Motion Picture Association...
Bolivia: Cocalero Film
Sebastian Molina writes in Plan B [ES] that the new documentary Cocalero about President Evo Morales’ rise to the presidency “gives many insights to better understand the character and the process.”
Bolivia: Interview with Filmmaker Jorge Sanjines
Javier Rodríguez reprints the entire unedited interview with famed Bolivian filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés in his blog Diseccionando a la Musa Perdida [ES]. Part of the interview was also published in the magazine section of the newspaper Opinión.
Jordan: On Spiderman 3
Jordanian blogger Naseem Al Tarawanah treated himself to a screening of Spiderman 3 and reviews it here for us. “What a way to start off the summer blockbuster season. The film plays on the special effects that made it famous years ago, and just when you thought they couldn’t do...
Libya: Quick Video Tour
Libyan blogger Hibo Abo takes us on a quick tour of Tripoli in this video link.
Kyrgyzstan: Love and Broken Glass
Leila Tanayeva interviews the director of a short documentary on life as a teenage girl, love, and bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan.
Sudan: Darfur's Beauty, Peace Negotiations & The Complex Sudanese Dating Scene
To many people, the name Darfur is synonymous with terror, death and hopelessness. Darfur, as we will soon see, is a very beautiful place despite the human suffering. We'll start this round up with some wonderful pictures of Darfur posted by Precious, a Sudanese girl in her early 20's who...
Ukraine: Being in a Movie, Part 2
MoldovAnn again writes about filming of the Ukrainian-Russian movie she's in: “…I learned that my “husband” now has a name, Jack Brown, and he’s a tanned man in glasses, with a gold Rolex. I also read that Donna (i.e., me) is big, clumsy, with a lot of hair in a...
Tanzania: a short scene from Bongoland film
Bongoland is a Swahili fim with English subtitles about Juma, a Tanzanian undocumented worker in the US, chasing the American dream. Chemi posts a clip from the film.
