Love is Potatoes wins award in Brazil
LOVE IS POTATOES by Aliona van der Horst has won Best Feature Length Film at Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema Festival last week....
Film maker Aliona van der Horst inherited a room of six square meters in a Russian house. This documentary will unfold the history of her countryside family; how it is shaped by and suffered from the cruel Soviet regime.
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“Love is Potatoes” on television march 29th!
Our film “Love is Potatoes” (2017, Aliona van der Horst) will be broadcasted again om march 29th at 23.14 on NPO 2!...
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“900 Days” and “Love is Potatoes” part of Eye’s “Russische dooi – Sovjet New Wave” program!
“900 Days” (2011, Jessica Gorter) and “Love is Potatoes” (2017, Aliona van der Horst) are part of the new film program of the Eye film museum: “Russian Thaw – Soviet New Wave” : “As the French have their Nouvelle Vague, the Russians know their Russian......
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LOVE IS POTATOES WINS GRAND PRIX IN MOSCOW
LOVE IS POTATOES by Aliona van der Horst has done it again! This time, the film received the grand prix at Artdocfest Moscow, the largest documentary filmfestival in Russia....
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Love is Potatoes wins in Beirut and Chili
Love is Potatoes keeps on winning! Earlier this month the film took home the price for the best documentary on the Beirut International Women Film Festival. Now it has won the prize for best feature at the Femcine festival in Chili!...
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Golden Calf for Love is Potatoes
Today Frank van den Engel had the honor to accept the golden calf (the biggest Dutch film award) for best feature documentary for Love is Potatoes! Director Aliona van der Horst could not be at the ceremony, but she lets us know that she’s very proud......
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Love Is Potatoes October 12 in release
Love Is Potatoes is a documentary by award-winning director Aliona van der Horst. The film will released in The Netherlands October 12th, 2017....
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Love is Potatoes wins 2 awards at DOKLEIPZIG
LOVE IS POTATOES by Aliona van der Horst has won 2 awards at DOKLEIPZIG November 4th. The Interreligious Jury Award and the Honarary Mention in the International Competition for Long Documentary and Animated Film. WATCH FILM...
Director
Aliona van der Horst
Dutch director Aliona van der Horst has directed four international award-winning documentaries. She was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1970 and studied Russian literature at the University of Amsterdam and film at the Dutch Film and Television Academy. She began her career in 1997 with the much-acclaimed The Lady with the White Hat and since then has received multiple awards for most of her films, among them the Special Jury Prize at the Tribeca film festival for Voices of Bam (2006), and the Grand Prix of the FIFA Montreal for The Hermitage Dwellers (2004). Recently she has received the Jan Kassies award by the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund, for outstanding achievement. For her latest documentary Boris Ryzhy (2008) she received the ‘Silver Wolf Award’ at the IDFA 2008, Best Documentary Award at Edinburgh Filmfestival 2009 , the Award of the Dutch Filmjournalists and the Special Jury Prize at the FIFA, Montréal.
Credits
Director Aliona van der Horst
Cinematographer Aliona van der Horst/Maasja Ooms
Sound recordist Tim van Peppen
Animations Simone Massi
Broadcaster VPRO
Ditribution Netherlands Periscoop Film