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Andrea Crisanti
Art director (Italy)

Andrea Crisanti was born in Rome in 1936. He studied Art at the Rome's Academy of Fine Arts and since youth painting was his passion. He began his career in the world of cinema with Mario Monicelli as assistant set designer of Mario Garbuglia on the set of The Great War (1959), then worked with set designers of the period. He debuted in Maciste in Hell (1962) by Riccardo Freda, working both in cinema and theatre. The crucial meeting to his career came in 1970 with Francesco Rosi: he prepared suggestive scenes, poised between the realistic needs of the director and a fine elegance of the forms. He achieved the scenes of Cinema Paradiso (1988) and A Pure Formality (1994) by Giuseppe Tornatore, which got a David di Donatello Award. Sicily is one of his favourite places, so that he recalled the pomp of seventeenth Bourbon period for the set of The Council of Egypt (2002) by Emidio Greco. Crisanti worked for the spectacular Franzo Zeffirelli (Young Toscanini, 1988) and the evocative social intensities of Gianni Amelio (The Stolen Children, 1992), the psychological noir of Michelangelo Antonioni (Identification of a Woman, 1982) and the emotional experiences and abstract dream-like sequences of Andrej Tarkovskij (Nostalghia, 1983). Over the years he collaborated with several Italian directors, teaches Art at the Rome's Experimental Cinematography Centre since 1995 and is president of A.S.C., Set and Costume Designers Association (ASC).

Semih Kaplanoğlu
Director, Producer (Turkey)

Semih Kaplanoğlu was born in1963 in Izmir, Turkey. He received his BS in Cinema-Television at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir in 1984. After his graduation he worked as an assistant cameraman for award winning documentaries Old Houses - Old Masters: Houses of the Western Mediterranean and Mimar Sinan by Süha Arın. He became known as the scriptwriter and director of the 52 Episode TV series Şehnaz Tango which was a prestigious work that was broadcast on Turkish TV Channels between 1994 and 1997. His debut was the short movie Elevator (Asansör, 1993), his first feature film Away from Home (Herpes kendi evinde, 2000), followed by Angel's Fall (Meleğin düşüşü, 2004), World Premiere at the 55th Berlin Film Festival. Egg (Yumurta, 2007) was selected by the 60th Cannes Film Festival Quinzaine des Realisateurs; his last movie Milk (Süt, 2008), the second part of the trilogy Milk - Egg - Honey, has been selected by the 65th Venice International Film Festival and the 60th Cannes Film Festival Atelier Section. Semih Kaplanoğlu, apart from being a director, published many articles on contemporary art and cinema.

Alfred Holighaus
Director of Berlinale Perspektive Deutsches Kino (Germany)

Alfred Holighaus is the head of the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino at the Berlin International Film Festival. Born in 1959, he dedicated himself primarily to work in press and broadcast journalism centring on culture and film. In 1984 Holighaus became film editor of the Berlin city magazine TIP, serving as editor-in-chief from 1986 to 1995. His editorial responsibilities also extended to the television programmes TIP-TV and Kinotipps at ORB Television. In 1995 he worked for Senator Film Productions, from 2000 to 2001 he was managing director of Senator Film Ltd. In June 2001 he began his work with the Berlin International Film Festival. He is responsible for the acquisition and presentation of German films within the framework of the festival. Holighaus is also the director of the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino which presents approximately twelve current German film productions to public audiences as well as to film professionals. He's also a publisher and a writer, his most recent book is Der Filmkanon - 35 Filme, die Sie kennen müssen (2005).

Anilda Ibrahimi
Writer (Albania)

Born in Valona (Albania) in 1972, Anilda Ibrahimi studied Literary in Tirana. After a period spent in Switzerland, she moved to Italy in 1997. She worked as a journalist for several newspapers and published her first collection Cristalli di tristezza in 1996. She was also co-writer for several anthologies as Quaderno Balcanico II (Cittadini della poesia, Loggia de' Lanzi ed., 2000) and Lingue di terre lingue di mare (Antologia dei poeti mediterranei, ed. Messogea, 2001). Rosso come una sposa (Einaudi, 2008) is her first novel, written in Italian.