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Open-air Cinema Isola is constructed during the festival in Izola’s main square by the Dutch professionals of Openlucht Bioscoop. This year’s open-air will host five films of the Harvest section, competing for the audience award and distribution across Slovenian cinemas. Among the selected films are once again those from Iran and Argentina, Tunisia will represent the colours of Northern Africa, Burkina Faso those of black Africa, and for the first time Brazil is joining the circle of visitors to the Island.

Isola Cinema 2006 film festival is drawing nearer and nearer. Between May 26th and May 30th Izola will become a movie island once again. People of Izola will be the first to get the news about (some of) the secrets of the forthcoming festival edition. On Saturday, May 6th at 7 pm, a press conference will be held at Art Kino Odeon in the center of Izola. The conference will focus on the programme and the guests of the 2006 festival edition. And if you decide to come to Izola, you also get a special treat: the very first screening of one of the films from this years programme.

Nervous? Can't sleep at night? Have no real appetite for anything? Are you annoyed by a system in which money is the only thing that counts?! Join the Isola Cinema volunteer brigade! We'll keep you busy 24/7 with hard labour and zero pay, except for our generous daily meals! You'll be coming to your bed in the strangest hours of the day and fall asleep instantly, knowing that you've done your good deed for the day! And believe it or not: you'll have a great time doing it and nice people around you to party with. Who knows, you might even get to see a film or two!

The Video on the beach team would like to announce that the application deadline for participation on the Video on the beach regional programme on the Isola Cinema 3 festival has been extended for additional three weeks.

New deadline for all film applications is March 21st, 2006.

All other application conditions have not changed and are available here.

Published below are the conditions for applications into the regional programme section of the Video on the Beach 2006, due to take place on the Isola Cinema 3 film festival during May 26th and May 30th 2006. Take a peek in the archives to see what went on last year during Video on the beach 2005.

We are happy to say (ok, it's bragging, but what the hell!) that a lot of our friends and guests have won important international movie awards. Anyone who's ever been to Isola Cinema festival knows we aren't really about awards and prestige, but we are still happy to acknowledge the successes of our dear guests. After Joe Weerasethakul, Lisandro Alonso and others, the time has come to congratulate our friend Yasmine Kassari!

prepared by Nika Bohinc

And so he came, our Abbas Kiarostami. On a lovely thursday in Gorizia, during the Amidei film festival. One of the great authors of our time. A poet, a philosopher, a painter, a photographer, all that and more. Reserved at first, he got completely relaxed when he started to talk about his work and his art. After the press conference he sat among the audience, conversed with his fans and that very evening receieved an Amidei prize for his opus. A lot has been said in these days and we have collected a few of his precious thoughts below.

photo © JoĹľe Rehberger Ogrin

The guests on the Manzioli square on the closing night of the festival

Well, this is it. Isola Cinema 2005 is at an end. In the official programme we have shown 30 films in seven sections, 4 short feature films and seven animations. On the punta, which was extraordinary lively this year, Video on the beach projections were shown, all 70 of them. Next to an encouraging response from the slovenian public, the festival has hosted 83 guests and 68 journalists. 130 people of the festival staff made sure Isola Cinema 2005 was as user friendly as possible.

The most vibrant clique of the festival, carrying a meaningful name of happy dv, is not at rest. Yesterday they've said a word or two with Josue Mendez, a Peruan director of Days of Santiago. The projection schedule of the last day of Isola Cinema 2005 festival is available here, to view the interview, click on the link bellow.

Olaf Möller, for isolacinema.org

Most of the people who routinely tell you just how much they love Asian cinema (by which they tend to mean the cinemas of East Asia…) would probably freak out at Udine's Far East Film Festival, an annual event devoted to the more commercial kinds of glory from such major film cultures like Japan, Hongkong, or the Philippines – excactly the kind of films to give our event a cool and crazy kind of additional edge.