Fribourg International Film Festival
fribourg international film festival fiff annual film festival fribourg switzerland focused selected film asia africa latin america grand prize main award fribourg international film festival fiff aim promote understanding culture particularly socalled north south give preference film stimulate reflection provoke discussion magda bossy working swiss ngo helvetas organized event honour th anniversary frenchspeaking swiss association convinced film would excellent medium expressing cultural richness egyptian native think open floor filmmaker south success – although varying city city – call second edition second edition entitled festival de film du tiersmonde thirdworld film festival festival de film de fribourg thirdworld title dropped grows professional artistic director martial knaebel working two assistant autumn festival receives international recognition unesco world decade cultural development seal ongoing evolution event pronounced addition international festival name also grand prize awarded fiff fribourg international film festival becomes regard d’or embodied original design fribourg sculptor jeanjacques hofstetter regard d’or awarded yi yi taiwanese director edward yang marking one greatest success fiff première beyond festival new artistic director edouard waintrop named opened festival genre cinema successor thierry jobin put forward redefinition fiff section make parallel section identifiable using name recur year th edition break record film festival ever held western switzerland ticket sold official selection includes long feature short feature competition western sport film disaster movie erotic movie fighting woman movie ghost story image islam occident abandoned child economical crisis laugh anything woman created cinema cinematic cabinet curiosity patrick chappatte lebanon atom egoyan armenia slava bykov russia tony gatlif rom mira nair india myret zaki egypt pierrealain meier producer martin scorsese world cinema foundation history iranian cinema creator syria ossama mohammed ida lupino par pierre rissient freddy buache bangladesh uzbekistan madagascar indigenous north american cinema african female filmmaker nepal george schwizgebel bouli lanners jeanpierre luc dardenne jeanfrançois stévenin geraldine chaplin douglas kennedy fribourg international film festival imdb