The 8th Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival (UBIFF) will bring the wonderful world of art cinema to the Mongolian capital. From October 11 to 14th, UBIFF will present an exclusive program of the best of the best from the international scene, including award-winners from Cannes, Berlin and Toronto International Film Festivals and nine other critically acclaimed films from, among other places, Afghanistan, France, Germany, Korea, Poland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
As a result of the huge public success of the previous seven annual festivals, the Arts Council of Mongolia is working with the Embassy of France and Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Geothe-Institute and Taipei Trade and Economic Representative Office in Ulaanbaatar to continue to introduce local audiences to a range of the most recent and cinematically daring, uncompromising and powerful filmmaking from around the globe.
On October 11, UBIFF will kick off with the screening of a Mongolian, Polish, and German joint film ‘Zud’, directed by Marta Minorowicz, at 7 PM at Tengis Cinema and on October 12 at 7 PM at iCinema.
This year, we will celebrate Korean Cultural Days. So naturally, Korea has been chosen as the festival focus country. UBIFF, in collaboration with the Korean Embassy in Ulaanbaatar will showcase three prominent Korean films on October 12 at Tengis Cinema.
On October 13 and 14, international films from other countries will be screened. To present a quality international program, this year we brought the most recently-produced and award winning films from international film festivals. Most of them were selected at the 2016 Cannes International Film Festival. For example, Sólveig Anspach’s film ‘Together project’ screened at the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, ‘The Salesman’ by Asghar Farhadi was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. This year UBIFF’s highlight film ‘I, Daniel Black’ by director Ken Loach won Palme d’Or at the 2016 Cannes film festival.
Also a Wolf and Sheep film directed by Shahrbanoo Sadat, which is an Afghanistan film was developed with the Cannes Cinefondation Residency in 2010 and will screen on October 13. An Assassin film directed by HOU Hsiao-Hsien, a Taiwan film director who was awarded best director of the Cannes film festival and ‘Barbara’ film directed by Christian Petzold will be presented. It was awarded at the Berlin International Film Festival and will screen on October 14 at Tengis Cinema.
We have no doubt that French film critic Thibaut Braq, who has been working as an international programmer for the 4th year will bring films that appeal to a broad audience of film enthusiasts and enrich the festival’s content.
For more information please visit www.facebook.com/UBIFF
The 8th Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival (UBIFF) will bring the wonderful world of art cinema to the Mongolian capital. From October 11 to 14th, UBIFF will present an exclusive program of the best of the best from the international scene, including award-winners from Cannes, Berlin and Toronto International Film Festivals and nine other critically acclaimed films from, among other places, Afghanistan, France, Germany, Korea, Poland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
As a result of the huge public success of the previous seven annual festivals, the Arts Council of Mongolia is working with the Embassy of France and Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Geothe-Institute and Taipei Trade and Economic Representative Office in Ulaanbaatar to continue to introduce local audiences to a range of the most recent and cinematically daring, uncompromising and powerful filmmaking from around the globe.
On October 11, UBIFF will kick off with the screening of a Mongolian, Polish, and German joint film ‘Zud’, directed by Marta Minorowicz, at 7 PM at Tengis Cinema and on October 12 at 7 PM at iCinema.
This year, we will celebrate Korean Cultural Days. So naturally, Korea has been chosen as the festival focus country. UBIFF, in collaboration with the Korean Embassy in Ulaanbaatar will showcase three prominent Korean films on October 12 at Tengis Cinema.
On October 13 and 14, international films from other countries will be screened. To present a quality international program, this year we brought the most recently-produced and award winning films from international film festivals. Most of them were selected at the 2016 Cannes International Film Festival. For example, Sólveig Anspach’s film ‘Together project’ screened at the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, ‘The Salesman’ by Asghar Farhadi was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. This year UBIFF’s highlight film ‘I, Daniel Black’ by director Ken Loach won Palme d’Or at the 2016 Cannes film festival.
Also a Wolf and Sheep film directed by Shahrbanoo Sadat, which is an Afghanistan film was developed with the Cannes Cinefondation Residency in 2010 and will screen on October 13. An Assassin film directed by HOU Hsiao-Hsien, a Taiwan film director who was awarded best director of the Cannes film festival and ‘Barbara’ film directed by Christian Petzold will be presented. It was awarded at the Berlin International Film Festival and will screen on October 14 at Tengis Cinema.
We have no doubt that French film critic Thibaut Braq, who has been working as an international programmer for the 4th year will bring films that appeal to a broad audience of film enthusiasts and enrich the festival’s content.
For more information please visit www.facebook.com/UBIFF