Fests, 9/1.

The festival was started during the Bosnian war 11 years ago as a mark of artistic defiance and a way to let the troubled community find solace through film. More than a decade later, the war is over and the festival helps continue the healing process - embraced by the community through its strong children's and teen programs as well as popular open-air screenings. And it is attracting more and more attention in the film world, with movie stars and industry types making the trip to Sarajevo.

Also at indieWIRE: Vanessa Romo has the lineup for the Woodstock Film Festival (September 28 through October 2).

Meanwhile, Venice. Peter Kiefer and Charles Masters run through yesterday's opening in the Hollywood Reporter and Roderick Conway Morris has a nifty catch-all piece in the International Herald Tribune.

What I've noticed in the German papers is that the ultra-cautious security measures are already hammering on the nerves of the press: Dirk Schümer in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Cristina Nord in die tageszeitung and Susan Vahabzadeh in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Posted by dwhudson at September 1, 2005 11:23 AM