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Fantasporto was invited to represent Europe at the WORLDCON 2023 | 81st World Science Fiction Convention | HUGO´s AWARDS in CHENGDU, China. A conference will be made about the situation of the SciFi Film Festivals and the documentary Fantasporto - 40 Years by Isabel Pina, a co-production between producer companies Pizzo and Cinema Novo will be screened at this huge event that, like the Oscars, have the famous HUGO Awards that are delivered in the last 81 years. This even...
DaVinci International Film Festival has entered an agreement with Rockefellas Studios, in where submissions* from the upcoming edition of the festival will have the opportunity to air on Rockefellas TV, the new entertainment channel that recently launched on ROKU. The sixth edition of DIFF will now take place from February 23-25th, 2024. Films submitted to DIFF will have the option to air on the&...
Encouraging higher goals, Fantasporto, an event that launches Porto and Portugal into the world, also receives praise from abroad. The renowned and respected North American magazine MovieMaker considered it one of the 25 "coolest" festivals in the world and the world's leading fantasy website, also North American, Dread Central, refers to the festival as one of the "20 most outstanding festivals in the horror field", including it in this list after a study carried...
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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 Program, News Reports/Feature, Sports Program, Documentary, Entertainment Program, Entertainment Special, Craft Program, Promotion/Open & ID, Craft Promotion/Open & ID, Streaming, Student, Films, Corporate Image, and Craft Films/Productions.
Nation’s largest university-run film festival to feature opening night screening of NYAD and closing night screening of ORIGIN The Savannah College of Art and Design’s 26th annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival will return in person October 21–28, 2023. The largest university-run film festival in the U.S., this eight-day celebration of cinematic excellence honors both professional and student filmmakers and welcomes major industry luminaries, including award-winning dir...
Where Polish eco-zombies meet Estonian kung-fu fireworks and extraordinary arthouse cinema in November. The FilmFestival Cottbus is one of the world's leading festivals for current filmmaking in Central and Eastern Europe. From 7 to 12 November, the 33rd FFC presents 150 films from 40 (co-)production countries. For six days there will be the colourful, melodramatic, exciting, shrill, crazy, humorous, experimental and highly political world of Eastern European cinema. The ...
Only two weeks are left until the start of this year's Ji.hlava documentary film festival the programme of which will offer more than three hundred and fifty films. Among other things, it will feature a revealing retrospective of the Méliès brothers and Václav Táborský, scenes from the underground of the Kharkiv metro, elderly women on bicycles, the phenomenon of deep fake, and TV pastors influencing US international politics. Films made by arti...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival’s (PÖFF) 27th edition will set a focus on Serbia and SEE* (South-Eastern European) cinema, as the festival screens 13 new films from the region in vast all programme lines. The SEE countries include Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. Meanwhile, the intriguing Yugoslavian Black Wave cinema from the 1960s–1970s will have a major role in this year's retrospective programme. ...
ANNOUNCING THE FULL LINEUP 2023 Romanian Film Festival Seattle In-person Events at SIFF November 4-5 & NWFF Nov 11-12 + Streaming Online November 4-12 Announcing the full lineup for the 10th Edition of ROMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL SEATTLE, "One Eye Laughing, One Eye Crying,” with in-person events at Seattle's SIFF Cinema Uptown, and Northwest Film Forum, and streaming through Eventive. This year’s theme “One Eye Laughi...
Proof: Proof of Concept Film Festival will run October 20-22 46 proof-of-concept shorts screened, with filmmaker workshops and panels during three-day event dedicated to the presentation and development of new work created as a first step for new feature films and series Confessions, Crack Shot, They Come From the Sky The American Cinematheque announced the lineup of official selections and events for the debut of PROOF: Proof of Concept Film Festival, taking pl...
Göteborg Film Festival's TV Drama Vision conference and drama series market is relocating to the new venue, Draken, starting with the upcoming edition. The iconic 700-seated cinema combined with great meeting areas at the connected Clarion Hotel Draken, will comprise the framework for TV Drama Vision 2024. In 2024, TV Drama Vision will once again present the main drama series meeting point in the Nordics, featuring a future-facing programme, with a curate...
The 8th European Arthouse Cinema Day celebrates European film culture worldwide on 12 November 2023! Press Release13.10.2023 - Berlin / Paris The 8th European Arthouse Cinema Day celebrates European film culture worldwide on 12 November 2023! For the eighth time, the International Association of Arthouse Cinemas (CICAE) invites movie theatres and film fans from around the world to join the European Cinema Day on November 12, 2023. Interested cinemas can now register free of charge at www.art...
Festival Dates We are a biennial! The 14th TIDF will take place from 10 to 19 May 2024. Film submissions No entry fee. You can only submit your film(s) to the 14th TIDF 2024 using the Online Entry Form on this website. Each film has to comply with the following conditions: Any changes made to the data provided on the Film Submission form must be updated in a timely fashion. You should provide an online preview of the film you are submitting. Failure...
MYMETASTORIES EXPERIENCE IN MINECRAFT FROM 13 OCTOBER In three days' time, MyMetaStories festival in Minecraft will get underway. It will take place from 13 to 16 October 2023. This is the 1st European film festival in the Minecraft® video game. This unique experience will enable festival gamers to watch 13 short films in a virtual cinema: immerse themselves in the world of MyMetaStories, discover emblematic mini-games such as "Build Battle" or "...
• Best Documentary at Boston Film Festival 2022 • Best Documentary at St. Louis Int’l Film Festival 2022 • Best Documentary at Sunscreen Film Festival 2023 • Best Director and Best Cinematography at DOC LA 2022 • Best Cinematography at Red Rock Film Festival 2023 Journey along with filmmakers Ashley Avis and Edward Winters over five years, across 20,000 miles and 13 states as they document the tragic plight of North America&...
Posted by Robin Menken Signe Baumane’s multi award-winning “My Love Affair With Marriage” is a exuberant mixed-media feature animation, a musical blend of neuroscience, gender issues and old fashion romance- gone wrong! Baumane’s signature style goes back to her earliest shorts in the late 90’s. Her poignant characters are sexy and pulpy-featured and, by 2014, when she made her video Tarzan and her first feature "Rocks In The ...
Now, it is time for us to announce the winner of the Best Human Rights & Dignity award. But before we unveil this year's recipient, I want to take a moment to introduce someone whose dedication to our festival's mission has been invaluable, though she couldn't join us in person tonight. Homayra Sellier, the founder and overall director of "Innocence in Danger," an international organization committed to protecting children from all forms of violence and exploitation,...
Directed by Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal. Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), “Killers of the Flower Moon” tracks the suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnigh...
2023 Tucson Film Festival Announces Opening Night Film KISS THE FUTURE Arizona Premiere with screenwriter Bill S. Carter The 19th annual Tucson Film Festival is honored to present the Arizona premiere of KISS THE FUTURE, a feature-length documentary directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain, Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 7:30 PM. Screenwriter and executive producer Bill S. Carter (Miss Sarajevo) will be in person alongside producer Sarah Anthony (Light & Magic series) for a specia...
Seventeen titles will premiere at the Opus Bonum International Competition at the 27th Ji.hlava IDFF : six films will be screened in their world premiere, eight in international premiere and three will have their European premiere at Ji.hlava. The competition features a great diversity of outstanding films produced by filmmakers from Argentina, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea, Switzerland, Thaila...
Ferrari (courtesy of NEON/Lorenzo Sisti) After an incredible two weeks of screenings and events, there’s still a few days left to experience the 61st New York Film Festival. Tomorrow, we are thrilled to present the North American premiere of Michael Mann’s Ferrari, with Michael Mann in person for a Q&A at the 6:00pm screening and intro at the 9:00pm screening, both at Alice Tully Hall. If you missed out on tickets, we...
- The Chilean delegation is headed by 5 delegates supported by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage who arrive with their respective production companies that are Escala Humana, Juntos Films, Pájaro, Parox and La Ventana Cine. For MIPJUNIOR, from 13 to 15 October, the participation of Tally Molly from the production company Pajaro is expected and the arrival of 2 projects by 17Films, Hola Flinko, and Microterricolas. - Chile is also selected for the Content Innovation Awar...
Garden City, Kansas. Posted By Robin Menken Bob Hurst’s Garden City, Kansas Is a crime documentary about a foiled terrorist attack and a warning against the violence of Trumpist America. We meet Angie Haflich, the content editor of High Plains Public Radio which broadcasts to Kansas and four other states. Interviews with Haflich and other local citizens portray a conservative Middle American small town (mostly Republican) which, because of it reliance on farming and meat p...
Defiant (2023) Karim Amer. Ukraine, USA, and UK. Among the outstanding documentaries in the 2023 program is Karim Kamer’s DEFIANT which offers a comprehensive inside view of the Ukrainian resistance and counteroffensive against the ongoing Russia invasion. DEFIANT investigates the conflict with in-depth interviews of leading government officials and provides essential background information with the assistance of archival footage. It follows and demystifies the systematic disinformati...
On December 27, Garrone will be in attendance along with the film’s performers, Sarr and Fall. Matteo Garrone’s movie “Me Captain” will receive the 2023 Capri Humanitarian Award, a special acknowledgment to be presented at the 28th edition of Capri, Hollywood - The International Film Festival, scheduled to unfold from December 27 to January 2. The festival is promoted by the Ministry of Culture (Film and Audiovisual Department), Campania Region, with the support ...
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is pleased to announce the Amazon Prime Video Take One Award Finalists, whose work will premiere at the 36th TIFF. As part of an initiative to discover and nurture new talent, TIFF partnered in 2021 with Prime Video, which produces and distributes a diverse range of excellent original works in Japan and abroad. The award recognizes short films (15 minutes or less) by filmmakers living in Japan who have never participated in the production of co...
Film Threat’s Award This! Announces 2023 Nominees Award This! In its 5th Year Honors Indie Filmmakers In-Person on December 10th Film Threat’s Award This! has become a unique voice for indie film and an annual industry staple. An event with a mission — to champion independent films across a multitude of diverse categories to bring awareness to the growing number of exceptional indies available on DVD, VOD, and streaming services. Film Threat recognizes t...
Hola Mexico Film Festival presented by Toyota Audience Award 2023 RADICAL by Dir. Christopher Zalla Produced by Ben Odell and Eugenio Derbez Tomorrow's Filmmakers Today Audience Award presented by Fidelity LA BRUJA by writer / director Manuel Villarreal The largest Mexican film festival outside of Mexico, Hola México Film Festival presented by Toyota, announced Radical as the 2023 winner of this year’s “Audience Award”, and La Bruja by writer...
Juried Awards + Tilke Hill W.i.P. Award Announced! Congratulations to all! (you are all award winners to us <3) Special Encore Events through + on November 9 @ Hallwalls! BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM – MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 Directed by Elisabeth Subrin BEST WNY FEATURE – 98 DEGREES WEST - ZAMIR DISCOVERS BOURDAIN'S AMERICA...
SHORT FILMS AWARDS Wednesday, October 11th, the Agora in UQÀM's Cœur des Sciences hosted the Short Film Awards Ceremony. We are happy to reveal the list of winners of the 52nd edition of the Festival du nouveau cinema. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION The best of today’s cinema: the boldest and brightest films from around the world. The Jury of the International Competition - short films was composed ...
KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES JIMMY BUFFETT, THOMAS MCGUANE, JIM HARRISON AND OTHER CONCH REPUBLIC LEGENDS WITH FLORIDA PREMIERE OF “ALL THAT IS SACRED” MCGUANE TO RECEIVE GOLDEN KEY AWARD FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE 2023 FESTIVAL RUNS NOVEMBER 15-19TH The Key West Film Festival announced today that i t will present the Florida premiere of the short film “All That Is Sacred,” directed by Scott Ballew. Thomas McGuane, the award-winning writ...
The Tryon International Film Festival (TRIFF) the principal annual event of the non-profit Polk County Film Initiative has announced the awards for the 2023 edition. Multiple screening venues operate seamlessly, including a bonus evening amphitheater screening that features music, food, drink and a special film. In addition to the Festival, TRIFF hosts many educational sessions in and around the town of Tryon, connecting filmmakers with students to perfect original voices, inspire n...
10th YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ANIMAZE – MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL WRAPS AND ANNOUNCES WINNING FILMS OF 2023 The Festival Paid Tribute to Canadian Animation Industry Tycoon Michael Hirsh who Received the Lifetime Achievement Award Animaze – The Montreal International Animation Festival celebrated its 10th year with many international attendees and animation films – shorts from filmmakers around the globe. “What we saw this year at Animaze was incredib...
Mads Mikkelsen receiving the Evolution ICON Award at EMIFF, 2018 Mads Mikkelsen will be a special guest at the 12th Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival. Join us at Cineciutat for the screening of his latest film, LA TIERRA PROMETIDA - THE BASTARD. After the screening, Mads will be joining us for a Q&A about the film. Sunday, Oct 22nd, 18:00 h, Sala 2 (Danish with English subtitles) 18:30 h, Sala 1 (Danish with Spanish subtitles) Mads is ...
Pathé are delighted to announced that Caroline Stone joins its UK operation, Pathé Productions Ltd, today (16th October 2023), in the newly created role of Commercial Director. The appointment consolidates the expansion of Pathé’s business in the UK into premium scripted television. Stone joins Pathe after a 15 year tenure at BBC Studios Productions. She was engaged across a variety of roles including, since 2020, Commercial Director of Scripted where she he...
New York Festivals® Television & Film Awards competition is thrilled to welcome Valeria Fiñana, Vice President of Production & Development for Telemundo Streaming Studios at NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises to the TV & Film Advisory Board. Ms. Fiñana joins the prestigious 17-member Advisory Board panel comprised of a global assembly of innovative storytellers and industry leaders with expertise across diverse genres. “We...
Academy Award-nominated film director Mira Nair is announced as the Head of Jury for this year’s Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival’s South Asia Competition – a section dedicated to showcasing the best of South Asian and South Asian Diaspora Cinema. Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!, Queen of Katwe, Monsoon Wedding) is welcomed to the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival this year to preside over the jury of the South Asian Competition. ...
Belgian directors gather for 50th anniversary Film Fest Gent FFG2023 Film Fest Gent is celebrating its 50th edition. For the festival it proved the perfect opportunity to gather Belgian filmmakers who, over the past five decades, premiered their films at FFG. On Friday 13 October, the red carpet at Kinepolis Ghent was exclusively filled with Belgian filmmaking talent, with directors such as Patrick Conrad, Stijn Coninx, Christina Vandekerckhove, Felix Van Groeningen, Lukas Dhont, ...
The Red Sea Film Foundation has partnered with leading news outlet Bloomberg to support its prestigious live media event ‘Bloomberg Screentime’ – a two-day summit covering the intersection of Hollywood and Silicone Valley with Bloomberg’s award-winning journalists gathering moguls, celebrities, and entrepreneurs already defining the next phase of pop culture. Bloomberg Screentime is hosting defining figures of popular culture – including Issa ...
J- 26 avant le lancement de la 33ème édition des Rencontres ! Découvrez les thèmes des débats et les avant-premières qui se dérouleront au Touquet-Paris-Plage du 8 au 10 novembre. Je souhaite m'inscrire aux Rencontres Les d&eac...
Josh Cohen, born in 1986, is a multi-disciplinary director, writer, photographer, and artist living between Los Angeles and New York. Josh was raised in central New Jersey with access to all things suburban, including but not limited to parking lots, strip malls, backyards, and runoff creeks before moving and spending the majority of his adult life in New York City. Initially studying animal science and marine biology, he took a hard turn to study design at the School of Visual Arts ...
Enzo Ashford Zelocchi was born in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Raised predominantly between the United States and Italy with family also located in England and France, he is of Italian, British, Spanish, French, Asian, and Jewish descent. Enzo pursued higher education in Italy, graduating with a degree in accounting from a private international school in Rome before relocating to Milan to study marketing, media strategy, and public relations at the private university IULM, alongside the Stan...
The new Locarno Film Festival Board of Directors has been elected, with Maja Hoffmann as President. The Festival’s governance has also been restructured Maja Hoffmann has been officially confirmed as President of the Locarno Film Festival, following a vote of the General Assembly and the new Board of Directors. A revision of the Festival’s governance structure has led to the adoption of new articles of association, a reduction in the size of the board and the introduction of two n...
Anthony Hickox, the British director known for horrors such as Waxwork and Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, died October 9, aged 64. Re published courtesy of DEADLINE Hickox had spent his recent years in Romania, where police found him dead last week at his house in Bucharest after friends had reported not seeing him for some time, according to close friend and InterTalent Rights Group CEO Jonathan Shalit. Best known for his work in the comedy-horror genre,...
ANDREA SLAVIČEK (Croatia) © Nina Duredevic – ZHAO HAO (China) © Yeo Seung Jin - ASMAE EL MOUDIR (Morocco) © Ammar Abd Rabbo - GESSICA GÉNÉUS (Haiti) © Jean Marie Gigon - DIANA CAM VAN NGUYEN (Czech Republic / Vietnam) © David Tichacek - MELTSE VAN COILLIE (Belgium) © Harm Dens ...
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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 Program, News Reports/Feature, Sports Program, Documentary, Entertainment Program, Entertainment Special, Craft Program, Promotion/Open & ID, Craft Promotion/Open & ID, Streaming, Student, Films, Corporate Image, and Craft Films/Productions.
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March 1-10,2024
Final deadline for shorts and features: November 30th 2023
The 44th edition of the PORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – FANTASPORTO 2024 will take place from March 1st till the 10th of 2024 at BATALHA CENTRO DE CINEMA
The Festival main purpose is screening and promoting films of quality, both aesthetically and thematically, and to seek new forms and methods of filmmaking.
Submitted films must be portuguese premieres of films shot in 2023
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The Global Entertainment Awards honour the role marketing and promotion play in powering the entertainment industry. We celebrate the creative people around the world whose work drives us to want, play, watch and listen to entertainment.
7 Regions. 4 Consumer Entertainment Markets.
26 Awards Categories. Pricing
Early Bird Entry Deadline 31 December 2023.
Regional Winners announced February 2024.
Global Entertainment Awards Winners announced March 2024.
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Event Date April 23 – 27 2024
Submissions end December 31st, 2023, submit through filmfreeway.com, or through the festivals website, myrtlebeachfilmfestival.com
Selected by Movie Maker Magazine as one of the top 25 film festivals worth the submission, one of the top festivals in the world by Film international and touted by many as one of the most important independent film festivals in the circuit. We are passionate about film and it shows!
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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Home of the NYC Indie Awards the festival aims to discover the Artist Filmmaker, showcasing them to the entertainment industry and the NYC public. All NYCIndieFF screenings take place in the historic center of NYC, Time Square which is the perfect home for an event geared toward creating incredible opportunities for independent voices.
NYCIndieFF honors the Best in Category which includes Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Narrative, Best Super Short, Best Covid Diaries, as well as Best Director and Best Screenplay.
New York City Independent Film Festival (NYCIndieFF) will hold a physical festival this year. We will celebrate the Independent Filmmaker, documentaries, short and feature-length films and animation. Whether a submission is comedic, dramatic, or something in between, The NYCIndieFF is eager to embrace fresh ideas and storytelling.
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RANKED 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! And most importantly, lots of FREE FOOD in our filmmaker lounge, where many friendships and collaborations have been made.
JDIFF is ALL about the independent filmmaker and is truly geared for the best experience!
Our final nominees are judged by our Jury members of Film professionals, such as Directors, Producers, Critics, Director of Photography, etc and choose the final winner of each category.
JDIFF acknowledges emerging filmmakers from around the world and is committed to bringing world class entertainment to the heart of the midwest.
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The 6th 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 . Attendees and participants will include filmmakers, industry executives, celebrities, media, and influencers. SUBMIT I Website I Profile on filmfestivals.com I Email contact
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Maya by Julia Verdin
USA 2023 1hour 44 minutes written and directed by Jukia Verdin
Teenage Maya is raised in a household stricken by her father’s abandonment.
Maya makes the wrong encounter on social media and meets Ray a handsome stranger she falls for: he encourages Maya to run away from home...she ends up being set up for appointments with Ray’s “clients” until Police finds her. Can Maya's mother help her get back on her feet, or will Maya be forever lost to the dark world she has fallen prey to?
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Through the real-life experience of several transgender youth and expert interviews, this docudrama provides an uncensored look into the forces behind this movement and reveals untold stories you have never heard.
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Some who took vaccine with the noblest of intentions experienced unexpected debilitating aftereffects. Instead of compassion, they were met with skepticism; instead of being helped they were shunned; instead of being heard, they were silenced. Join us as we bring their stories out of the shadows so they can be heard and seen and no longer alone.
And yet nobody's coming to the rescue of truth?
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France 93 minutes
August 2014. ISIS invades the city of Sinjar, home to a religious minority called the Yazidis, in the north west of Irak.
Sibel, a 13-year-old girl, witnesses the slaughter of her entire family.
Alongside thousands of other women and young girls from her community, she is then kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery.
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5 minutes 40 - USA July 2022
An overly confident cop’s first day on the job gets interesting as he navigates unfamiliar territories and people.
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A brother-sister assassin duo become part of a scheme much bigger than them, when a culture vulture-ing client calls an audible.
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2023 USA 96 minutes
Rear View Cataclysm is the story of two brothers and an ex-girlfriend who try to recapture the love and passion and of their past. Edison is trapped in a toxic marriage and invites down-on-his-luck brother, Blake (Jason Liebrecht), to a popular local music festival. Broke and depressed, Blake agrees, not realizing that Edison has also invited Mazie (Caroline Ducey), his ex-girlfriend. No one can predict the course of desire, reconciliation and regret that unfolds. Set against the barren landscapes of rural Texas and featuring the hypnotic sounds of Grouper and Govinda along with Punk Rock Bands Zounds and The Jesus Lizard, Rear View Cataclysm is a feast for the heart and senses.
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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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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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La 32ème édition du festival international du film d’animation Les Nuits Magiques aura lieu au cinéma La Lanterne de Bègles du 29 novembre au 3 décembre 2023. Trop souvent réduit aux seuls dessins animés pour enfants, le cinéma d’animation est un genre cinématographique qui mérite d’être popularisé car sa richesse et sa diversité restent encore trop souvent méconnus &agra...
Cartoon Springboard s'installe à Madrid pour la deuxième année. Dédié aux jeunes talents de l'animation, cet événement convivial offre d'excellentes opportunités de réseautage et de brassage des générations entre professionnel·les qui démarrent et ceux et celles plus aguerri·es. Ne manquez pas ce rendez-vous incontournable ! ...
L'IRIS BLANC Le 40e ALBUM DES AVENTURES D'ASTÉRIX DANS TOUTES LES LIBRAIRIES LE 26 OCTOBRE 2023 Qui est ce mystérieux personnage fraîchement débarqué chez nos amis irréductibles, et pourquoi sa présence semble diviser nos Gaulois préférés ? Résisteront-ils encore et toujours à l'envahisseur romain ? Par Toutatis, il est temps de vous en dire plus sur L&r...
Ça y est, après 5 jours intenses de festival, le palmarès du festival Les Écrans de l’aventure vient d’être annoncé PALMARÈS 2023 La 32e édition des Écrans de l’aventure de Dijon touche à sa fin et révèle son palmarès 2023 placé sous le signe de l’aventure authentique, engagée, humaine et partagée... “ De l&rsq...
LA COMÉDIENNE EYE HAÏDARA, MARRAINE DE LA 19ÈME ÉDITION DE MON PREMIER FESTIVAL DÉCOUVREZ LE PROGRAMME COMPLET DE L’ÉVÉNEMENT ! La 19ème édition de Mon Premier Festival aura lieu pendant les vacances de la Toussaint pour le grand public du 25 au 31 octobre 2023. Le public scolaire quant à lui pourra découvrir en avant-première les films de la programmatio...
Toute la programmation du 45e Cinemed est en ligne ! Nous sommes heureux de vous dévoiler l'ensemble de la programmation de la 45e édition du Cinemed - Festival international du cinéma méditerranéen de Montpellier qui se déroulera du 20 au 28 octobre à Montpellier.
Le programme complet avec toutes les séances : cliquez ici Le programme jour par jour : cliquez ici Le programme 48 pages tél&eac...
La 38e édition du Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur - FIFF (Belgique) s’est déroulée du 29 septembre au 6 octobre 2023. Vitrine de la richesse de la Francophonie, le FIFF rassemble public et professionnels autour d’une centaine de films et de rencontres, en présence de nombreux invités. Le FIFF 2023 s’est clôturé ce vendredi 6 octobre avec la cérémonie de remise des prix ...
Premier grand rendez-vous cinéma de l’année, et unique évènement d'envergure dédié aux films de Comédie et à son actualité, le 27e Festival International du Film de Comédie de l’Alpe d’Huez, en Isère, aura lieu du lundi 15 au dimanche 21 janvier 2024. Après Alexandra Lamy (2019), José Garcia (2020), Michèle Laroque (2022) & Karin Viard (2023)... C’est la ...
Sophia Éditions propose sa nouveauté à paraître aujourd’hui : Christopher Nolan, le cinéaste iconique et ses films par Ian Nathan, une plongée en profondeur dans la vie et l’œuvre de l’un des réalisateurs les plus admirés et les plus déroutants de notre époque. Christopher Nolan est une plongée en profondeur dans la vie et l’oeuvre de l’un des réalisateur...
À l’occasion de l’hommage rendu à Wim Wenders, Prix Lumière 2023, trois expositions témoigneront de son travail de photographe. Toute l'année, l'Institut Lumière explore les riches liens entre photographie et cinéma, dans ses galeries. Un travail essentiel tant la photographie est dans l'ADN de l'histoire des Lumière. Après avoir exposé de grands cinéastes et photographes (Agnès Var...
MARTIN SCORSESE CONFIRME SA PARTICIPATION À LA 20E ÉDITION DU FESTIVAL DE MARRAKECH LE GRAND RÉALISATEUR AMÉRICAIN SERA LE PARRAIN DE LA 6e ÉDITION DES ATELIERS DE L’ATLAS Réalisateur de légende, ardent défenseur du cinéma, Martin Scorsese est, depuis plus de 40 ans, l’un des artistes les plus influents au monde. Soutien de longue date du Festival de Marrakech auquel il a participé à 5 reprise...
L’actrice américaine oscarisée présidera le jury de la 20e édition du Festival International du Film de Marrakech prévue du 24 novembre au 2 décembre 2023. Son jury décernera l’Étoile d’or à l’un des 14 premiers et seconds longs métrages de la compétition internationale, dédiée à la découverte de cinéastes du monde. « C’est un h...
5e Festival de cinéma jeune public 2023 EN AVANT LA MUSIQUE ! Du samedi 21 octobre au dimanche 29 octobre 2 séances par jour, à 11h et 15h Accès gratuit sur réservation Pour sa 5e édition, le Festival de cinéma jeune public propose une programmation consacrée à la musique au cinéma … Des films muets avec bruitages musicaux aux bandes sons mythiques, en passant par les com&ea...
Samedi 14 octobre à 17h30 à la Halle Tony Garnier Le prodigieux Fabrice Luchini sera l'invité spécial de la cérémonie d'ouverture du festival Lumière. Le film de cette soirée sera Sunset Boulevard, le chef-d'œuvre de Billy Wilder sur l'âge d'or d'Hollywood, projeté en copie restaurée. Photo: © JOEL SAGET / AFP ...
D'année en année, l'ambition du Festival du film de Montreuil s'affirme. Après Cristian Mungiu (Palme d'or 2007) et Ruben Ostlund l'an dernier, titulaire lui de deux Palmes d'or pour ses deux derniers films, le cinéma le Méliès a cette fois reçu Thomas Cailley, Romain Duris et Paul Kircher pour Le Règne animal, Katell Quillevere pour Le Temps d'aimer, et, venus d'Angleterre, le tandem Paul Laverty ...
LE PALMARÈS DU 5e FESTIVAL DU FILM SOCIAL A l’issue de la 5è édition du festival, qui s’est déroulée du 10 au 12 octobre dans toute le France et qui a réuni près de 10000 spectateurs, sept prix parmi une sélection de 23 films à thématiques sociales ont été décernés. LES LAURÉATS DU FESTIVAL DU FILM SOCIAL 2023 Le jury de la 25e image a décerné deux ...
3ème fiction la plus écoutée de France, podcast coup de coeur d'Apple Podcast, l'audio polar "Jacques a dit". « Jacques a dit », que le jeu commence… BLYND, société créatrice de contenus audio immersifs, et Orson Productions, les auteurs-créateurs de la fiction sonore Telos, co-produisent le premier audiofilm français, ouvrant ainsi la « voi...
CLAIRE SIMON VIGO D'HONNEUR 2023 Le Vigo d'honneur est attribué cette année à Claire Simon, autrice d'une œuvre de "géographie humaine" qui traverse dans les deux sens la frontière poreuse entre documentaire et fiction. De Nice au Bois de Vincennes et à la Gare du Nord, son cinéma multiplie et entremêle les portraits, en particulier de femmes et de jeunes filles, dessinant à la fois une cartograp...
LE CONCERT DE LA RECONSTITUTION POUR ZHORA, LE 1ER ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE 100% FÉMININ D’AFGHANISTAN, DE RETOUR SUR SCÈNE EN FRANCE APRÈS 2 ANS D’EXIL. Pour sa 10ème édition, le festival Haizebegi réaffirme son ambition de porter la voix des peuples en guerre et propose un spectacle puissant mêlant traditions, combat pour la survie et lutte contre l’obscurantisme. Pour la première fois, les 35 musicie...
A l’occasion de la Journée du cinéma d’animation le 28 octobre, Issy-les-Moulineaux accueille la Fête du cinéma d’animation à la Halle des Epinettes et à l’UGC en partenariat avec l’Association Française du Cinéma d’Animation (AFCA). Du 15 au 29 octobre 2023, en parallèle d’une programmation destinée aux familles, jeunes et adultes sont invités à découvrir les mon...
Nous sommes très fiers des bonnes relations et des partenariats signé avec les plus grands festivals et marchés : Venice Production Bridge, FestForums Santa Barbara, AFM, Animaze, Tallinn Black Night International Film Festival, Houston WorldFest, Fantasporto, et Cannes Market bien entendu et beaucoup d'autres. Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir grace à ces parteneriats pouvoir apporter news et dailies à ...
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