08.03.2010

Soon in Amsterdam

Screening of ‘an opportunity to build’ (1985) by Rob Klaasman and Maarten Kloos.

06.03.2010

And the winner is….

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Nominated for the best bedroom: Sherlock Holmes

06.02.2010

The Complete Metropolis

Only 200 meters missing, as the newspaper announced. In 2008 the only (almost) complete reel of Fritz Langs’ Metropolis was found. Friday Febrary 12 live on Arte TV. Read more »

03.02.2010

Infinite Space on TV

02.02.2010

Oscar nomination for Logorama

Yes, we recognize the beauties, because the short animation film Logorama we screened at our festival is nominated for an Academy Award! We keep our fingers crossed for the people of H5, especially Nicolas Schmerkin.

14.01.2010

Megunica in Amsterdam

Een van de populairdere films van het AFFR 2009 was Megunica van Lorenzo Fonda (2008) over de animatie/graffitti artiest Blu. De film is zelden te zien, dus als je hem gemist hebt op ons festival, dan een hele week herkansing bij onze vrienden van SmartProjectSpace: vertoningen van 14-1 tot en met 31-1.

12.12.2009

Film on TV

. Sunday December 13 at 18.25 on Dutch TV Ned.2: the TV premiere of Oscar Niemeyer – La vida es un sopro, one of the hits of AFFR 2009.

23.11.2009

Films on DVD?

We receive many questions about the availability of films screened at AFFR2009, for public screenings or for private DVD purchases.

01.11.2009

Garbage Warrior

So far, the movie Garbage Warrior (Oliver Hodge, 2007) is one of the audience favorite. The film runs Sunday, November 1 again.

31.10.2009

Snakebit

The secret preview

by Rita Brons

Snakebit is made for American public television, but has not been aired. AFFR is therefore even more proud that the movie is to prepremiere in the Netherlands. The movie is eagerly awaited for months by many fans. Sam Wainwright Douglas, the director is one of the special guests on the AFFR.

Preview Fresno

Great planning disasters

Fresno (Steve Payne, 2009)

A bizarre documentary about the effects of the mortgage crisis in this Californian city. It is one of the first documentaries dealing with the economic crisis in a painful yet humorous way.

Steve Payne followed some skateboarders in Fresno who had a new hobby since last year: skating in empty swimming pools of unsaleable homes. Fresno is one of the top 100 U.S. cities that are worst hit by the crisis and it rankes number 14 in the list of foreclosures. Across California tens of thousands of homes are unsaleable. The clear water in its pools, two years ago the picture of American prosperity, is now – how symbolic – drained. The film would not be as interesting as it is, if not the skateboarding scenes mixed with interviews with people from the real estate world. The interviews with politicians, bankers and brokers provide the necessary background for the emergence of the mortgage catastrophe, everybodies contribution in it and the impact on homeowners and neighborhoods in Fresno. Many people bought homes only to get rich and now many people simply left. What remains is a desolate neighborhood only the skateboarders can have a field day. Screening at AFFR2009.