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	This year has offered a new range of film subjects and treatments: more and more, the everyday lives of people are treated with the respect previously shown only to historic subjects. The history of the 1950s and 60s is taking on the feel of History. And where, a couple of years ago, the only films about recent war were extremely stylized, now many of the stories are more personal. Yet they all retain the texture made up of allegory, poetry and everyday reality layered together that has always been the hallmark of Eastern European film art. Meanwhile in Germany a wave of films about the East ("Ost") experience are no longer only films about Them but have become films about Us. Berlin and Los Angeles The Freedom Film Festival takes place in Los Angeles at the time of the American Film Market, and the Berlin Freedom Film Showcase takes place at the same time as the Berlin International Film Festival. These programs are independent initiatives that take place in cooperation and coordination with the American Film Market (AFM) and with the Berlin Festival. The year 2000 will be our third year in Los Angeles was our second in Berlin. The Berlin Freedom Film Showcase began with an opening ceremony at the historic Rotes Rathaus. Poland’s legendary film director Andrzej Wajda will presented the inaugural Andrzej Wajda Freedom Prize to Russia’s Kira Muratova. Screenings followed at the Polish Cultural Institute, the Czech Center and the Hakesche Höfe Filmtheaters, all in the eastern part of Berlin. In Los Angeles the Freedom Film Festival opened with "Checkpoint" (Russia). Andrzej Wajda Freedom Prize recipient Kira Muratova was present and presented a rare screening of her award-winning 1989 film "Asthenic Syndrome." Screenings continue at Laemmle’s Monica Theater in Santa Monica. A special series at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles of films about and from the former East Germany features "Wege in die Nacht" and other films by Andreas Kleinert. Summer/fall 2000 At the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, the Moscow International Film Festival, the Festival East-West in Baku, Azerbaijan, and FilmFestival Cottbus, Festival of Young East European Cinema in Cottbus, Germany, the Freedom Film Festival co-presented programs films in partnership with our sister festivals.

THE HOLLOWAY FILE
Database of Russian and Ex-Soviet Union directors

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