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Apichatpong Weerasethakul (guest at the first Kino otok presenting Blissfully Yours; and whose Wordly Desires was screened at last year's festival) has cancelled the local release of his last film Syndromes and a Century after Thai censors insisted that four ``sensitive'' scenes had to be cut.

Kino Otok FC -- aka FC Isola Cinema-- won the Silver Medal at the International Film Festival Futsal Competition in Rotterdam .
After four winning games Kino Otok FC lost in the cup final against the joint Argentinean-Brazilian team.

Kino Otok FC --aka FC Isola Cinema-- kicks off the first International Film Festival Futsal Competition in Rotterdam.
The line-up of the team: Vlado Škafar, Olaf Möller, Mak Kapetanović, Joachim Leitner, Kevin Henry, Stefan Uhrik, Cyrus Frisch and Gertjan Zuilhof.

More at the Rotterdam Film Festival

"Go Where the Film Takes You" was the motto of the first Silvan Cine School. As part of this Isola Cinema workshop "intended to cultivate thinking, talking and especially writing about film" we were taken aboard an enormous whaling ship in Matthew Barney's film Drawing Restraint 9. IFC Films is now releasing a documentary about Barney's artistic enterprise, titled Matthew Barney: No Restraint.

The world’s first and largest co-production market, Rotterdam Film Festival's CineMart, has recently announced its selection of forty-six independent film projects to be discussed in January 2007. Amongst the lucky directors of developing projects we can find many old guests of Isola Cinema (Pablo Trapero, Lav Diaz, Raya Martin) and certainly plenty of names that are yet to become our friends.

Last November the biggest filmindustry on the planet released a remake of Umrao Jaan. Directed by J.P. Dutta and featuring an all-star cast, noteably Aishwarya Rai (of course in the leading role), this glamorous superproduction comes exactly quarter of a century after Muzaffar Ali's intelligent, poetic and simply magnificent cinematic interpretation of the 1905 Urdu novel.

Khavn de la Cruz is one of four directors receiving the '20K grant' for his project MONDOMANILA: HOW I FIXED MY HAIR AFTER A RATHER LONG JOURNEY.

On the occasion of the Peter Mettler retrospective that took place at the last Toronto Film Festival the Canadian-Swiss director put together what he calls a "mini website".

The final count-down to the opening of the 3rd International Animation Film Festival (aka Animateka Festival) has begun. Director and programmer Igor Prassel has again packed his festival --that is running from December 12th until 16th in the Ljubljana art-house cinema Kinodvor-- with the very best contemporary animation film can offer.

An old friend of Isola Cinema, the Taiwan-based master Tsai Ming-Liang, has -- after the success of his latest film I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Hei yan quan), shot as part of the New Crowned Hope project -- embarked on an expensive new project titled Face.