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Congratulations to Atiq Rahimi!

May 5, 2023
Panos Kotzathanasis
Atiq Rahimi at 28th Vesoul IFF Asian Cinema (Photo Credit Jean-François Maillot)

The Festival International des Cinémas d’Asie de Vesoul congratulates Atiq Rahimi, director – writer, Goncourt Prize 2008, for his nomination as member of the Jury at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. He was in competition at the 8th and 9th FICA Vesoul 2002 and 2003, with his films ” Nous avons partagé le pain et le sel ” and ” (A)fghanistan, un état impossible “, president of the international jury at the 18th FICA Vesoul 2012 and guest of honour at the 28th FICA Vesoul 2022 during the retrospective in support of Afghan filmmakers. Life is a long “stone of patience”…

Atiq Rahimi signing his latest book “Si seulement la nuit” during the day of support for Afghan filmmakers on February 4, 2022 at the 28th FICA Vesoul (Photo credit Jean-François Maillot)

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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