Wearing the brand "Death by chocolate Design" huddy.studio by Viktoria Theoharova on the red carpet of the VS-FILMS FESTIVAL with festival consultant Chiara Dona dalle Rosé and galerist Mona Safey
The VS-Films Festival is the first qualitative festival for very short films that do not exceed ten minutes in length. It includes competitions for feature films, documentaries, and animation.
with festival founder Ziad Basmair, festival consultant Chiara Dona dalle Rosé and j...
The recently painted walls at Novotel 6th of October still show some fresh renovation work. This hotel has just finished renovations, though you might notice some final touch-ups happening around the property.
Location matters mostly here, especially with the Grand Egyptian Museum 25 min away which just opened it's doors for the public on November 4!
This is the most significant cultural event in decades - the world...
The Alexandria International Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries took place 02-06.10 and the Helnan Antoniades Hotel, the new flagship of the Helnan hotel chain with the gardens and the zoo behind, was the epicenter of the film festival.
The opening ceremony on 02.10 took place at the Biblioteca Alexandrina with a festive celebration with actors like the famous actor Mohamed Mansour from Kuwait, during which Mr. Al-Amir Abaza, the president of the festival presented the Livetim...
The countdown has started with a lot of anticipation: The Annaba Mediterrean Film Festival will open it's doors welcoming international guests and filmmakers in only 5 days.
The Annaba Mediterranean Film Festival returns for its fifth edition from September 24 to 30, 2025 honoring Spain as a country of focus and featuring 76 films from 20 Mediterranean countries.
Festival director Mohamed Allal announced during a press conference that the event aims to establish Annaba as a hub for...
This year’s edition will feature a special appearance by two-time Academy Award winner and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett, who will be participating in a series of festival events, including an “In Conversation” session moderated by media personality, Raya Abirached at the CineGouna Platform, in partnership with the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, the festival impact partner, and UNHCR.
In keeping with its tradition, the 8th GFF will showca...
The El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) is announcing a curated selection of highly anticipated Egyptian films set to be screened at its forthcoming 8th edition. This slate of films highlights a new wave of visionary Egyptian filmmakers, many of whom are presenting their first or second features and reinforces the festival’s tradition of championing bold and authentic storytelling from the region.
The GFF program will feature the following Egyptian films:
FEATURE NARRATIVE COMPETITION
My Fat...
Aleksander Sokurov at the interview
A. Sokurov: Despite the challenges faced by cinema in the 20th century, I see this film as a love letter to the past 50 years, reflecting both my personal experiences and the broader history of humanity. This is the first film in which I participate not just as a filmmaker but as a character, someone deeply connected to the story. Many of the events depicted on screen are things I witnessed myself. The people in the film, my compatriots ...
It's my second interview with Mihai Mincan after our interview couples of year ago in Venice, where he competed for the supreme award at Venice International Film Festival with his last feature film "To the North".
Once again he is in copempetion and once again the world premiere of his new film "Milk teeth" takes place in Venice, the place to.be!
In the final days of Ceausescu's Romania, a ten-year-old girl becomes the last witness to her sister's mysterious ...
With the festival director Alberto Barbera
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At the award ceremony, the supreme trophee, the Golden Lion tonJim Jarmusch
The International Jury for the main Competition of the 82nd Venice Film Festival, consisted of 7 international film personalities including; French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé; Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero; Romanian director, writer and producer Cristian Mungiu; Iranian director and writer Mohammad Rasoulof; Brazilian actress, writer and screenwriter Fernanda Torres;...
Press confernce in Venice: actor Enzo Brumm alongside Luna Wedler and Ildiko Enyedi
She is the most important Hungarian director. He is one of the biggest stars of the Asian cinema. And she is a Swiss shooting star who got awarded for her performance at Venice International Film Festival.
Ildiko Enyedi and Tony Leung Chiu-wai have jointed forces in the film "Silent Friend", presented as part of the main competition here at Venice Film Festival. He is a big Asian star also known fro...
When Romanian filmmaker Adina Pintilie won the Golden Bear with "Touch Me Not" in 2018 Tom Tykwer at that time the president of the jury commented on his decision something like: This is how we will do films in the future!
7 years later I watch Damien Hauser's film "Memory of Princess Mumbi" and have a similar feeling. This is a fresh and modern film, revolutionary.
Set in Umata, a futuristic African country, Memory of Princess Mumbi recounts a love triangle between a...
Ozon is presenting as part of the official selection a new adaptation for the big screen of one of the most complex novels of the 20th century.
"L'étranger" by Alexandre Camus is difficult to translate into images, and even Luchino Visconti, with his 1967 adaptation, could not escape unscathed.
Great actors, great cinematography and a modern look on existentialism and still "The Stranger" is not the best film of this year competition.
But in its radical and al...
BWF Founder Manuel Collas de la Roche with Kevin Spacey and the Princesses Murat
After awarding Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner last year in Venice, the Better World Fund returned to the Cipriani Hotel in Venice celebrating the two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey and renowed Spanish actress Carmen Maura, who attended on August 30 the Better World Fund Gala as the Guests of Honor.
The Better World Fund Gala took place on September 30 under the High Patronage of H.I.&R.H. Prince Mu...
EL GOUNA FILM FESTIVAL UNVEILS FIRST 12 TITLES FOR ITS HIGHLY ANTICIPATED 8TH EDIT
El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) has just announced the first 13 films selected to be screened at its 8th edition (October 16 - 24, 2025), offering an exclusive look at a program filled with critically acclaimed works from both established and emerging filmmakers.
“We are incredibly proud of the carefully curated program that will be presented, with each film contributing to a rich tapestry o...
And the winners at Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival are from left to right: director John Shehata from Egypt, Turkish producer Gulda Sahin, Turkish director Muge Manus, myself, festival director Khatuna Khundadze, Egyptian DOP Kareem Agamy and Indian director Abhimanyu Kanodia.
Image by Michael Chauvistré: Kanodia, Chauvistre and Manus on the summit
From Georgia won Revaz Nasidze with the short film "Tragedy without a hero". Known in his homecountry as...
Revaz Nasidze on stage holding the microphone at the closing ceremony, surrounded by the jury members Roberto Zazzara and Giorgi Kharebava to the left, and the Turkish winners director Muge Manus and her producer Gulda Sahin to his left. In front of him is his daughter holding the two awards!
Not only his little daughter, his entire family went on stage. Here on stage are festival director Khatuna Khundadze with French jury member Francois d'Antemare on her left and German jury member M...
Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival is celebrating a 5 years jubilee. And the big news to celebrate with this anniversary are:
Mestia FF is now an official member of the International Alliance for Mountain Film-IAMF! A great achievement for its festival director Khatuna Khundadze who invited on this occasion to Mestia the former IAMF coordinator Aldo Audisio and one of the biggest supporters of the festival, the Embassy of Italy. The embassy was represented by Fabiola Alb...
He scouts immersive artworks from across the globe and has been appointed the Head of Immersive, a new section at Cannes International Film Festival, inaugurated just two years ago. Elie Levasseur reports to Thierry Fremaux, the artistic director at Festival de Cannes.
Levasseur is a busy man and difficult to catch these days. But Khatuna Khundadze, founder and director of Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival made the impossible possible and here he is giving a masterclass at...
Ajit Rai's last lunch in London was at the Brahma Kumaris European headquarters in London.
Brahma Kumaris is a worldwide spiritual movement led by women, dedicated to personal transformation and world renewal through Rajyoga Meditation. Founded in India in 1937, Brahma Kumaris has spread to over 110 countries on all continents and has had an extensive impact in many sectors as an international NGO.
He got in touch with this spiritual movement through his actress friend Marianne Borgo and...
Ajit Rai on scene at the Goa International Film Festival
just received the devastating news of the passing away of a veteran film and theatre journalist, and the man who chronicled the ventures of the billionaires Hindujas into the film industry.
Ajit Rai died in his sleep, in London, while staying at a friend’s place. He was 58. Originally from Bihar, Ajit was a wandering soul, and travelled to various places in and outside India, wherever there was film festival or theatr...
Memorial to a friend
His unexpected death yesterday morning in a London residence is devastating and took us, all his friends by surprise. These lines are supposed to help to understand that a close friend is no longer with us!
My friend Ajit Rai Kumar, who I hosted for many years in Cannes, I introduced him to the GFF and together we attended many film festivals like the one in El Gouna, Cannes or Cairo, is no longer with us. He suffered lately of a week heart but unable to...
Great festival and experience! Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival is celebrating a 5 years jubilee. And the big news to celebrate with this anniversary are:
Mestia FF is now an official member of the International Alliance for Mountain Film! And this is a great achievement!
Festival director Khatuna Khundadze is announcing many highlights and surprises for the upcoming edition July 28 to August 3.
The festival will start with t...
Kim Butts (Avatar Alliance Foundation) and David Lisnard (Mayor of Cannes) inaugurating the Cannes exhibition at Palais des Festivals.
Enzo Ghico and Carlo Chatrian, the president and the director of the National Museum of Cinema in Torino were saying in May: "Our city has a very cosmopolitan touch due to the internatuonal events we are hosting like "The art of James Cameron". This exhibition has not only attracted a record number of international visitors but has also attrac...
The Alexandria International Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries will take place October 2 to October 6 in the city of Alexandria.
Leyla Elwi
Al-Amir Abaza, the president of the festival, is announcing that the upcoming edition will be dedicated to the great Egyptian actress Leyla Elwi.
Al-Amir Abaza
Al-Amir Abaza is a writer, cinematic critic, poet, journalist and the president of the "Egyptian Association For Film Write...
