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The second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RedSeaIFF), closed by honouring Academy Award winning and internationally renowned actor and filmmaker Jackie Chan for his unparalleled talents and contribution to the film industry, paving the way as a legendary actor, director, producer and stuntman. Mohammed Al Turki; CEO of the RedSeaIFF said: “We are thrilled to close the second edition on a high by honoring Jackie Chan, a true pioneer, and legend. His extraordi...
The highly-anticipated Saudi Action-Comedy “Sattar'' is set for a wide theatrical launch in Saudi Arabia on December 29 via Front Row Arabia, a joint-venture between MENA distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment and Saudi Arabia’s leading home-grown exhibitor, Muvi Cinemas. The film is produced by prominent Saudi powerhouse Tefaz11’s newly launched production arm, AlShimaisi Films, as well as Muvi Studios. The companies dropped the film’s first full t...
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WINNERS ANNOUNCED VIDEO: Winners of the Red Sea competition sections Actor Jackie Chan poses with the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) CEO Mohammed al-Turki and chairwoman Jomana al-Rashid on the Red Carpet during the closing ceremony.
Actor Jackie Chan poses with the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) CEO Mohammed al-Turki and chairwoman Jomana al-Rashid on the Red Carpet during the closing ceremony of the second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF), in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on December 8, 2022. The second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RedSeaIFF), taking place from 1-10 December 2022, today announced the winners of the Red Sea competition section...
Third Eye, 2022, 19, 06: Recapitulating the films I saw at the Asian Film Festival Starting screenings before the inauguration is the norm at the Third Eye Asian Film Festival (TEAFF). Having attended numerous TEAFFs, I should have known about this practice. But it just slipped my mind. As a result, I missed all the films shown between 10 a.m. and 6.45 p.m. The inaugural film was from Srilanka, called The Newspaper, directed by Sarath Kothalawala and Kumara Thirimadura. But before this featur...
Behno aor bhaiyo, let us celebrate, Ameen Sayani has just turned 90! Today is his 90th birthday. When you are 90, you have seen it all, been there, done that. But the spark is still present, and he has been recording advertisements and content well into his 80s. As can be expected, health is an issue, and assignments have gradually come down to a trickle in the last decade. Not many wanted a man in his 80s as the voice of a product, service or film. But it is amazing that the assignments h...
Third Eye, 2022, 19, 05: Iranian film Open Season bags the Best Short Film award at Asian Film Festival The week-long Third Eye Asian Film Festival was held at the P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy, Prabhadevi, Mumbai, from December 12 to 18. Deputy Secretary in the Tourism and Culture Department of the Maharashtra Government, Mrs. Vidya Waghmare was present at the closing ceremony of the festival. Mrs. Vidya Waghmare, Kiran Shantaram (Chairman, Asian Film Foundation and Third Eye A...
International Institute of Solutions, USA, launches India chapter, honours film personalities Led by Arun Gandhi, International Institute of Solutions (IIS), USA, has now come to India, to source organic and health food supplies, supplements and nutritional products, among many other projects. To mark the occasion, a dinner reception was held at the Classique Club, Link Road, Andheri, Mumbai. A host of personalities were honoured on the occasion, with singer Padma Shri (civilian honour) Soma...
Third Eye, 2022, 19, 04: Asian Film Festival screens five Gujarati Films, including Hellaro In a specially curated package, the Thirst Eye Asian Film Festival has screened five Gujarati films. Film archiver and film culture activist Subhash Chheda, a friend of mine, has curated the package. For those who missed it at other festivals, the primary attraction would have been the Award wiNational nning Hellaro, directed by Abhishek Shah. The other films are Dhad (Paresh Naik), Reva (Rahul Bh...
Third Eye, 2022, 19, 03: Asian Film Foundation awards Sudhir Nandgaonkar the Satyajit Ray prize Sudhir Nandgaonkar worked tirelessly, all his life, for the cultural heritage of cinema. He reached out far and wide, propagating this culture, and played a key role in getting the local Marathi-speaking cinegoers of Mumbai and its suburbs to watch and appreciate world cinema, and discuss and debate it too. Towards this end, his Prabhat Chitra Mandal Film Society served the cause extremely well, by...
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NEFT Vodka In Collaboration With The International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA) Berlinale/EFM & Durban Film Mart Continues It’s Annual N.E.F.T.I. Competition Three Top Films To Be Screened At The Berlinale EFM Competition Winner Receives $5000 Audience Viewers Choice Winner Receives $2000 Three Finalists To Receive A 1-Year Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps Complimentary Subscription Applications Are Now Open For NEFTI 2023 On The www.Nefticom...
Festival 11th-17th June 2023 Mifa 13th-16th June 2023 In 2023, the Festival will start on Sunday 11th June to host 7 days dedicated to animation film! Following an exceptional 2022 edition, and in view of how dense this year’s offer is becoming, CITIA’s management decided to open the Festival as early as Sunday. ...
This could be your film at the 56th WorldFest-Houston! The 56th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival is now officially open for entries! WorldFest offers competition for Shorts, Documentaries, Feature Films, Music Videos, Experimental & Student Films on the Silver Screens of the wonderful Memorial City Cinemark Theatres, with over 1,000 international filmmakers attending the International Film Festival! EarlyBird Deadline is Nov 1...
ITFS23_Team_Schmitz-Gielsdorf_Richter_Wagener_Bauer_1 ITFS23 Team Schmitz Gielsdorf Richter Wagener Bauer 30th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS): Animation connects! – True to this motto, the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) invites animation film fans, artists, professionals and families from April 25 to 30, 2023 and connects Stuttgart with the world of animation. Animated togetherness, new contacts and cohesion, that pr...
December 31, 2022 Earlybird Deadline February 1, 2023 Regular Deadline March 1, 2023 Late Deadline March 21, 2023 Extended Deadline April 10, 2023 Notification Date The Zoie Films Festival is now the ZOE AWARDS FESTIVAL that celebrates independent works of film shorts, animations, documentaries, web series, smartphone films. And, we are excited to announce our expansion to include podcasts, Alexa Skills and NFTs. Awards & Prizes ZOE Aw...
The World Trailer Awards celebrates the World’s Best Creatives who promote the World’s Entertainment Content. We shine a spotlight on the professionals whose creative marketing concepts bring entertainment products to life, deliver audiences, and drive revenues for the entertainment industry. EXTENDED ENTRY DEADLINE: 18 JANUARY 2023 ...
ENTRY DEADLINE: 31 DEC 2022 The Entry Clock is ticking for submissions. The World Trailer Awards would like to offer filmfestivals.com readers the opportunity to use a 10% discount code on submissions. All they need to do is enter the code: Judges2023 during the checkout process. Enter: www.worldtrailerawards.net Valid until 31 December 2022. The World Trailer Awards celebrates the World’s Best Creatives who promote the World’s Entertai...
Attention independent filmmakers! Mirror Mountain Film Festival’s regular submission deadline is TODAY! We want to see the most creative, groundbreaking, outrageous and personal films out there, so if you have an original drama, documentary, animation, experimental, music video, dance film, interactive media, or something different altogether, visit our website for more info! http://bit.ly/1DsPZy7 ...
Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival is calling all fantastic filmmakers to submit their feature films, short films and music documentaries to the 19th edition of the festival. Deadline is the 7th of April, 2023. Selected feature films will compete for Grossmann’s most prestigious award, the Vicious Cat. Selected short films will compete for the Slak's Vicious Cat award for Best Short Film or the Melies d’Argent a...
China native Cindy Di Xin is an award-winning filmmaker who has written and directed six short films. She earned master’s degrees in film production with an emphasis in directing from Chapman University in Orange County, California and The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Over the past three years, Cindy has been nominated and awarded at seventeen film festivals, including several Academy Award-qualifying festivals. In her films, she enjoys exploring family and multi-cultu...
CARTOON SPRINGBOARD - 24-26 October 2023 - Madrid, Spain ONTO A NEW YEAR! BACK TO MADRID FOR THE SECOND YEAR At the turn of a new year, we often call for changes; but sometimes continuity can be very positive! We are therefore delighted to have the privilege to come back for a second time to Madrid after a first successful edition. Our events for 2023 are already in the starting blocks. The fourth of the 5 Cartoon Events will be: ...
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that The Fabelmans is the recipient of the Vanguard Award. The Vanguard Award is a group honor distinguishing a film's cast and director in recognition of their collective work on an exceptional film project. The award will be presented to director Steven Spielberg and cast members Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle and Judd Hirsch who are all expected to attend. The Film Awards will take place in-person on Jan...
A review by Emmanuel ITIER and Roxanna BINA. Here comes the magical season, here comes your time to enter the movieland of Universal Studios Hollywood ( https://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/web/en/us ). To immerge yourself in the spirit of the holidays the first stop at Universal Studios Hollywood is to visit the “Grinchmas” plaza, at the beginning of the park. Make sure to take a family picture while drinking a yummy hot chocolate under the 65 foot-tall “Grinch...
Attention independent filmmakers! Mirror Mountain Film Festival’s regular submission deadline is TODAY! We want to see the most creative, groundbreaking, outrageous and personal films out there, so if you have an original drama, documentary, animation, experimental, music video, dance film, interactive media, or something different altogether, visit our website for more info! http://bit.ly/1DsPZy7 ...
The Rideshare Killer becomes the first "every frame minted" (EFM) film when the producers minted all 119,170 frames of the feature film into individual 1-of-1 NFTs on the Polygon Blockchain. With nearly 120,000 individual NFTs minted, The Rideshare Killer offers horror fans a unique way of supporting the film, owning a unique collectible that could possibly appreciate in value, and being a part of the film's legacy. As the NFT space matures, more films will be min...
If you liked Reservoir Dog or Pulp Fiction, enjoy discovering one of my BEST FOR FESTS: a BLAST! Bruno Chatelin founder & editor of filmfestivals.com, former distributor, head of Sony and UGC Fox in France! ...
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Brendan Fraser is the recipient of the Spotlight Award, Actor for his performance in The Whale. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 16, 2023. The event will be presented by American Express and sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts. “Brendan Fraser demonstrates his impressive talent in Darr...
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT’s Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner will co-host the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Awards, which will be previewed on this evening’s broadcast of the venerable newsmagazine program. The award show returns in-person on January 5, 2023 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with Media Partner Entertainment Tonight and presented by American Express and sponsored by IHG Hotels & Resorts. ET will be on the ground ...
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Penélope Cruz is the recipient of the International Star Award, Actress for her performance in Parallel Mothers. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 6, 2022 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 17, 2022. The event will be presented by American Express and sponsored by Entertainment Tonight. “Penélope Cruz has collaborated with Pedro Almodó...
New York Festivals® TV & Film Awards announced the addition of Pete Stevenson, Executive Director of The Edge Picture Company to the 2023 TV & Film Advisory Board. “We are thrilled to welcome Pete Stevenson to the TV & Film Awards Advisory Board. As an award-winning director he brings his wide-ranging creative expertise to the 16-member panel of storytellers and industry executives,” said Rose Anderson, VP & Executive Director, New York Festivals ...
China native Cindy Di Xin is an award-winning filmmaker who has written and directed six short films. She earned master’s degrees in film production with an emphasis in directing from Chapman University in Orange County, California and The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Over the past three years, Cindy has been nominated and awarded at seventeen film festivals, including several Academy Award-qualifying festivals. In her films, she enjoys exploring family and multi-cultu...
68x award-winning husband and wife filmmakers Daniel Lir and Bayou Bennett’s recipe of rejecting the status quo of modern Hollywood’s content of murder, sex and disturbance but instead pushing entertainment, beauty, originality and inspiration is attracting world wide acclaim for the couple who built their personal love story on making films together. First meeting at a vegetarian cafe on the Lower East Side of NYC in 2007 and connecting over their love of cinema, the couple are n...
Bruno Chatelin is happy to be a judge for the second edition of the World Trailer Awards / 25 February 2023 . Voting member : European Film Academy (former Board Member); Les Cesar voting member since 1987, Académie des Lumières. Fest Forums Advisory Board Member, International Film Festival Summit Advisory Board Member. Board Member on a few Festivals BIFF, CIFF, Animaze - le MIAFF, Houston WorldFest, Co- Founder of Animation Day in Cannes French ...
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The awards ceremony of the 7th edition of the Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival will take place 22nd December at Cineplexx Sarajevo B&H from 8pm ...
December 31, 2022 Earlybird Deadline
The Zoie Films Festival is now the ZOE AWARDS FESTIVAL that celebrates independent works of film shorts, animations, documentaries, web series, smartphone films. And, we are excited to announce our expansion to include podcasts, Alexa Skills and NFTs.
CALL FOR ENTRIES November 18th-February 2023: The ZOE AWARDS Festival is accepting short films, animations, documentary including branded film shorts. In addition, this is our first year to accept podcasts, web series, NFTs and Alexa Skills! Visit - ZOEAWARDS.COM
Categories:
– Official Competitions
Short Films, documentaries, animations under 25 minutes, all genres except
– Animation Competition
Animation film shorts under 25 minutes, all genres.
– Smartphone Shorties
All genre shorties under 15 minutes shot on smartphones.
– Branded Shorts
Film shorts under 20 minutes that communicates a positive brand message.
– Podcasts
All types including True Crime,
– Alexa Skills *NEW
All types including games, health/wellness, food, kids, education, etc.
– Podcasts
All types including True Crime,
– NFT Creations *NEW
ZOE AWARDS wants to celebrate excellence in the new NFT space for digital arts, audio, video.
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Deadline 31 December, 2022
New York Festivals TV & Film Awards honors content in all lengths and forms from over 50 countries. Embracing all aspects of the Television and Film industries, categories mirror today's global trends and encourage the next generation of story-tellers by recognizing innovators in our 14 Category Groups: News Programs, News Reports/Features, Sports Programs, Documentary, Entertainment Programs, Entertainment Specials, Program Crafts, Promotions/Station IDs & Opens, Promo/ID & Open Crafts, Streaming, Student, Films, Corporate Image, and Film Crafts.
Accepting entries for the 2023 competition since September 7th 2022. If you need additional assistance or have any questions about our categories, please contact Rose Anderson at randerson@newyorkfestivals.com.
CATEGORIES:
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Late deadline 31 December 2022
Extended deadline is January 15 2023
Honouring the world's best creatives, marketing the world's best entertainment.
Entries are open, the venue is booked and we are excited to be well into the preparations for 2023.
International Awards Program with International Judging Jury:
The work you submit is going to be seen by hundreds of judges. All are senior executives from production companies, distributors, broadcasters, streamers, advertising agencies and film, television and gaming studios.
32 Categories for Best Trailer, Best Audio Trailer, Best Poster, Best Motion Poster, Best Story, Best Experiential Marketing, Best Online Advertising, Best Outdoor Advertising, Best Print Advertising.
World Trailer Awards Regional Winners are announced and celebrated in early February 2023.
Winners for the World Trailer Awards 2023 will be announced on 25 February 2023 at Tivoli Marina Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal. The high profile awards event is attended by industry guests, entrants and judges. This is followed by a by a virtual broadcast on 26 February on Deadline.com
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December 26, 2022 Regular Deadline
January 16, 2023 Late Deadline
January 30, 2023 Extended Deadline
RANKED AGAIN IN 2022 AS ONE OF THE TOP 50 FILM FESTIVALS WORTH THE SUBMISSION FEE BY MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE AND ONE OF THE TOP REVIEWED ON FilmFreeway, JDIFF is known for its networking opportunities, best communication, quaint location, great programming, friendly staff & volunteers, inquisitive audience, multiple screening opportunities, workshops, panels, amazing events and parties and so much more! JDIFF is ALL about the independent filmmaker and is truly geared for the best experience!
Dubuque, Iowa, located right alongside the Mississippi River, is a perfect place to host the festival. As quoted in Filmmaker Magazine "The festival is smartly situated downtown, with an assortment of handsome venues all within walking distance" from the Festival Headquarters, located in the grand HOTEL JULIEN, the same hotel where Al Capone used to hide out from the Chicago Feds.
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December 31, 2022 / Extended Deadline
The MBIFF is a World Class Event.
Submissions end December 31, 2022, submit through filmfreeway.com, or through the festivals website, myrtlebeachfilmfestival.comThe Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine and has become a favorite of many filmmakers and film enthusiast!
The MBIFF 18 will take place April 18 - 22 2023.
What sets the MBIFF apart from other festivals is our commitment to the true spirit of film. Once you are here, you are family.
Our judging panel includes judges from all walks of life, why? As with any subjective judging, it is important to have a broad spectrum of perspectives. Many film festivals house only filmmakers as judges, which can lead to niche judging which we feel is unfair to filmmakers, especially if you do not fall inside their niche. Your film receives the fair and honest treatment it deserves. By including other perspectives from different walks of life it creates a balanced judging platform, which we believe is why we have been touted as having one of the best film line ups in the World. We believe that your project receives a more overall perspective grading as to whether it entertains or informs a wider viewing audience rather than that of only an entire panel of film makers. Not to worry, we do have several film professional on board as judges!
The goal of the founder and director Jerry Dalton, was to create a venue for independent film makers which is not corrupted by politics.
The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology.
We look forward to viewing your film /project!
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January 15, 2023 Late Entry Deadline
January 31, 2023 Final Brick Wall Deadline
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival offers international competition in Ten Major Competition Categories! Features, Shorts, Docs/Business Films, Student, Experimental, Screenplays, New Media, TV Production, TV Commercials, & Music Videos! More than 200 sub-categories for fair competition. Only at WorldFest-Houston are you selected as a Remi Award Winner on the basis of your numerical score from the juries, which greatly increases your chance to win a Remi, unlike other festivals that only give out one Gold, one Silver and one Bronze! Only 10%-15% of entries actually win the coveted Remi Award!
You may enter Online via our entry platform - www.worldfest.org, or via FilmFreeway.com - we now accept entries via Vimeo & YouTube, in addition to DVD/BR Entries, & USB/Jump Drives. Screenplay entries must be bound. We will confirm when we receive your entry and we provide personal Jury Results, and festival details when you are selected for screening at the 56th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival!
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Fantasporto´2023 | 43rd Porto International Film Festival calling for entries
ENTRIES FOR THE 43rdd EDITION OF FANTASPORTO ARE OPEN
WELCOME TO THE PORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Fantasporto´2023 | 43rd Porto International Film Festival reminds you that the entries for the next edition of this festival are open, and will close on December 31st, for all sections.
The 43rd edition of the event will be from February 24t till March 5th at Batalha – Centro de Cinema. To submit a film please send to info@fantasporto.com the link and password (in Vimeo) of the film to be seen by the selection committee, and the entry form that you will find at FESTIVAL 2023 on www.fantasporto.com. The link must be open till March 5th. The selected films will be announced by the end of January.2023.
Fantasporto enjoys incredible loyalty and support from the large film-appreciating community all over the World.
A World Heritage City by UNESCO, Porto was considered twice Europe’s Best Touristic Destination, another factor adding interest for guests and the press. Founded, in 1981, by Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and Mário Dorminsky, the fest goes now with the same founders and directors, for its 43rd consecutive edition and has the support of the Portuguese State and Porto Townhall.
Please check the Regulations on the site www.fantasporto.com before sending your submissions.
FILM ELIGIBILITY:
Features: The films must be produced in 2022.
Shorts (only fantasy films competition) till 15 minutes produced in 2022;
To participate in the festival, films must be first screenings in Portugal (for all sections).
Films in a language other than English must be subtitled in English.
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The fith annual French Riviera Film Festival (FRFF) will recognize and celebrate short-form content created for film, television, Web and all digital platforms. In the glamorous South of France setting, FRFF invites filmmakers from around the globe to participate in the two-day festival that includes screenings, awards ceremony, and closing gala party. FRFF will place the spotlight on the best short-form filmed content during the time period of the annual Festival de Cannes. A prestigious jury panel will select Best Drama Short, Best Comedy Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animation Short, Best Experimental Short, Best Lifestyle Short, Best Fashion Short, Best Music Video, Best Female Filmmaker Award, Best Director Award, Best Actor Award, Best Actress Award, Best Activism Short, Best Micro Short Award, Industry Excellence Award, and Lifetime Achievement Awards. SUBMIT I Website I Profile on filmfestivals.com I Email contact
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The Chelsea Film Festival (CFF) has been selected in the "TOP 10 BEST FILM FESTIVAL IN NORTH AMERICA" (#6) by USA Today in 2019 among 19 other film festivals in the USA.
CFF is an organization dedicated to supporting films and the artists who create them by providing a creative forum for exchange and discovery with the public.
The Festival attracts filmmakers, artists and audience members from across North America and around the globe. It premieres independent feature-length, documentaries and short films with a Global Focus.
Chelsea Film Festival aims to raise an awareness about foreign independent films and discover upcoming talents.
The Chelsea Film Festival is an international film platform for world lovers.
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 WATCH OUR EXCLUSIVE VIDEO COVERAGE & FEST AMBIANCE FROM THE CIRCUIT
December 2022, USA 2 hours 4 minutes
Gotham tells the true story of what happened in New York City during the twenty years from 1993 to 2013. How did a city with over 2200 murders, 93,000 violent robberies and 147,000 car thefts in 1990 become the capitol of the world a mere handful of years later? This feature documentary explores what happened during these decades, told by the people who did the hard work, some at great personal and professional cost.
From Fear City to the City of Dreams. Hear about the greatest American turnaround story from the people who made it happen.
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First look at "Tales of Babylon" by Pelayo De Lario
Synopsis: In this ultra-hip crime thriller, X and Y are two hitmen which storyline is interwoven with other two hitmen: Mother Nature and The Professional. The lives of these hitmen, a bartender, a kid, her brother, and their gangster leader grandfather intertwine in these wild tales of violence, family and redemption. In this tale of family, crime, and violence in London, the Modern day Babylon....
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ECO VILLAGE by Phoebe Nir
First Feature Film by Phoebe Nir (USA: 81 minutes November 2022)
When Robin hitch-hikes to an eco village she read about online, she is seduced by a highly musical parallel universe, in which wholesome earth skills blend vertiginously with Bacchanalia and Sadomasochism.
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ABSOLUTION by Lauren Spohn
Short film by Lauren Spohn (UK: 6 minutes 24 seconds 2022)
Labelled BEST FOR FESTS by curator Bruno Chatelin former head of Fox and Sony in France, filmfestivals.com founder and editor
"I am in a dark forest and something is chasing after me, some sort of creature that reeks fire or something: one part of me wants to run but I cannot move my legs? I am totally paralysed..."
"One last thing"he said : "it's not your fault !"
A man sees his psychiatrist for help with a difficult hidden family secret. The conversation takes a sinister turn as the psychiatrist pushes deeper into the man’s past. All is not what it seems:
Can he take the tension, will you?
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First Feature film 2022 99 minutes
France 2021 99 minutes First feature film by Clémentine Célarié, produced by Matthieu Rubin - Sazia Films.
Starring Loris FREEMAN, Elodie GODART, Clémentine CÉLARIÉ, Philippe UCHAN, Mathieu AMALRIC, Sergi LOPEZ, Dominique PINON, Tom LEEB, Jacqueline CORADO, Marie DURET...
Sibling Rivalry and truth untold emerge after the unexpected inheritance of Jeanne
"Pierre et Jeanne" recounts the devastation caused by an inheritance intended for Jeanne, Pierre's younger sister. This poisoned gift from a friend of the parents will instill discord, jealousy, discord and sibling rivalry until an untold truth is revealed.
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Starring Gary Kohn, Jade Struck, Claude Duhamel, Jim Kinney...
Jeff Gross is a novelist and film maker. He has several writing collaborations with Roman Polanski to his name, including "Frantic" and "Bitter Moon"
Returning to the small town of Eden, Oregon after 30 years in France, Josef, a writer, filmmaker, and self-described permanent exile, tries his best to fit in. Unable to write, the world is so crazy that he can't keep up, he starts coaching the girls' tennis team at one of the local high schools. Lonely, adrift, he develops a friendship with Hope, a remarkable woman who dances in Puritan Eden's only strip club. But as the dark clouds of fascism roll in, rumors run rampant, and soon enough, inevitably, the two worlds collide, with tragic consequences.
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Starring Aidan Browne and Sofia Masson
A young guitarist is about to play the biggest show of his life. Things don't quite go as expected...
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Short Film Fantasy USA December 2021 - 14 Minutes 20 seconds
A prestigious feminine writer examines in her most recent novel what it means to be a woman across history and conjures up Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt and fierce feminine writer/philosopher Mary Wollenstonecraft(mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frakenstein) who have crossed deserts of eternal time to meet.
The women materialize into her present time environment and recount their greatest victories, defeats, loves, regrets and dreams.
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Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley Clark and his son Wes Clark Jr. take us on a journey through the complicated realities of our financial system and its profound exposure to climate change. Hot Money outs the whole game, the whole charade, the whole crapshoot of the money system with all the humor and intelligence of a New Yorker cartoon. Combined with the wisdom of international business experts and academics, Hot Money is rich with historical context. It severs the knot of economic and political forces that may lead to societal collapse.
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Documentary by Susan Kucera (director of Jeff Bridges Living in the future’s past)
USA July 2021 51 minutes 48 seconds
Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which are built in by evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address the problem.
Our brains evolved to solve short-term challenges for our survival. Climate change is a long-term challenge to our survival. Can we bridge the gap between these modes of thinking?
Emmy-nominated actor David Morse narrates the brutally honest 12th hour with insight from noted evolutionary biologists, climate scientists, cognitive researchers and psychologists.
Visionary thinkers like Peter Russell, Dr. Paul Piff, Dr. Kari Norgaard and dozens of the brightest minds in academia lay out an unflinching look at mankind: our past, our abilities, our shortcomings and what may be humankind's final destination.
If we have any hope to survive the changes we’ve locked in to our climate, we need to be honest with ourselves and our limitations. The 12th Hour lays out our biases so that we may overcome them.
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Documentary by Daisy Gedeon second feature documentary
Australia june 2021 90 minutes (in post)
ENOUGH! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour follows Australian-Lebanese filmmaker Daizy Gedeon’s personal and independent introspection into how her ancestral homeland, the place her family was forced to flee in the 1970s because of the Civil War, has ended up in a state of complete catastrophe. It is a story of awakening in which Daizy is forced to abandon her idealism about Lebanon and face the cold, harsh truth about the country’s dark underbelly which is its most sinister enemy.
Daizy prosecutes the case against the corrupt political class which has reduced a proud people to beg for garbage collection instead of greatness and negotiate potholes rather than peace.
ENOUGH! is the plea and the prayer, the feeling and fierce determination of the 4.5 million Lebanese in Lebanon as well as the 16 million members of the Lebanese diaspora scattered around the world, whose hearts continue to bleed for a homeland they are desperate to return to and so deeply want to believe in...once again.
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"The Sound of Us" illustrates that during this critical time in world and U.S. history, music gives sound to hope and courage, allows us to grieve and be honest, and is the great, universal language that unites us all.
As the world grapples with unrest the profound truth remains that, through music, we are not alone.
The Sound of Us weaves inspiring stories about the beauty and goodness of music with interviews and performances by artists such as Ben Folds, Sarah McLachlan, Avery*Sunshine, Eric Whitacre, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Hiromi, Antonio Sanchez, Butch Walker, Will Wells, Patti Smith, and many more. Combined, these powerful vignettes illustrate how music heals us, gives us hope for the future through our children, keeps our heritage and history alive, allows us to have the most difficult of conversations, sheds light on current struggles, and continues to invite us back to the thing that unites us all - music.
The film is directed by Chris Gero, a Grammy nominated, American music industry executive, concert producer, record producer, songwriter, film director and composer, founder of Yamaha Entertainment Group of America and Chief Artist Relations Executive for Yamaha Artist Relations Group
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