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La Biennale di Venezia
L’oro di Napoli (1954) by Vittorio De Sica is the pre-opening film of the 81st Venice International Film Festival on the 50th anniversary of the death of the great film director /
World premiere of the digital 4K version
restored by Filmauro Srl and Cinecittà /
Tuesday 27 August 2024 at 9 pm – Sala Darsena (Lido di Venezia)
The classic film by and with Vittorio De Sica, L’oro di Napoli (The Gold of Naples, 1954) starring Eduardo De Filippo, Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Paolo Stoppa and Totò, will be the Pre-opening film on Tuesday August 27th of the 81st Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia, on the 50th anniversary of the death of Vittorio De Sica and the 70th anniversary of the film.
L'oro di Napoli, which is part of the Venice Classics programme of the 81st Venice Film Festival (28 August – 7 September), will be screened on August 27th in Sala Darsena on the Lido di Venezia at 9 pm, with the world premiere of the digital 4K version restored by Cinecittà upon initiative of Filmauro Srl di Aurelio e Luigi De Laurentiis, based on the 35mm camera negative and the 35mm mono soundtrack negative, under the artistic supervision of Andrea De Sica.
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See you at this year’s 28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which will take place from October 25 until November 3, 2024.
This year, for the first time, we are extending the festival from six to ten days. This expansion will allow us to screen films multiple times, ensure the availability of comfortable accommodations for our guests, and make the festival more inclusive for disadvantaged audiences.
For the competition and non-competition sections, we are preparing a selection of the latest, distinctive and thematically relevant films. During the Industry Days (October 29 – November 1) you can look forward to the closely watched Ji.hlava New Visions Forum & Market focusing on European and U.S. film projects, or to the introduction of the new generation of European documentary film professionals – Emerging Producers 2025. The festival will also feature enriching Inspiration Forum’s discussions as well as Ji.hlava for Kids and Ji.hlava Vibes programmes focusing on younger audiences.
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Ermanno Olmi Award
6th Edition
International Award for the Best Short Film under 30
Deadline / October, 13th 2024
An international award for Best Short Film, dedicated to the late director Ermanno Olmi, to support and promote the works of young filmmakers.
The award is addressed to filmmakers of all nationalities and not older than 30 on the date of the open call deadline and consists of 3 cash prizes (€ 1,200, € 600, and € 400) - made available by Bergamo Film Meeting Onlus - and a special mention awarded on a theme chosen by the municipal administration. The winner of the mention will be awarded a cash prize worth € 300 offered by FIC – Federazione Italiana Cineforum.
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LES SÉANCES SPÉCIALES DE LA 35e ÉDITION THE 35TH EDITION SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Les Séances spéciales, également hors compétition, sont programmées avec certains de nos partenaires : Région Sud, European Film Awards / Swissfilm, Doc Alliance, Casa de Velázquez, et le Festival de Marseille.
The Special Screenings, also out of competition, are programmed with our partners: Région Sud, European Film Awards / Swissfilm, Doc Alliance, Casa de Velásquez, and Festival de Marseille.
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The 9th edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market (August 30th – September 1st, 2024), organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place in-person at the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido di Venezia, during the forthcoming 81st Venice International Film Festival (August 28th – September 7th, 2024).
Following the call which was launched on January the 15th, the Book Adaptation Rights Market has selected 30 international publishing houses and literary agencies plus 3 for the VPB Focuses (1 within the FOCUS ON LUXEMBOURG WALLONIA – BRUSSELS supported by Film Fund Luxembourg and Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel and 2 within the FOCUS ON JAPAN supported by JETRO).
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With almost 600 events across the city, there is a chance you might have missed one or two world premieres, live performances, compelling talks, or celebrity guests during the 2024 Tribeca Festival.
So, here's what happened:
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We are thrilled to announce the kickoff of the Ex Oriente Series 2024 1st session, taking place at the prestigious Sunny Side of the Doc festival. This event marks the second year of the Ex Oriente Series, a program dedicated to developing and supporting innovative docuseries projects from Central and Eastern Europe.
The Ex Oriente Series is supported by Creative Europe MEDIA, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, and the Czech Film Fund.
The first session, scheduled from Sunday, June 23 to Tuesday, June 25 in La Rochelle, France, will once again be led by leading tutor Ruth Reid, a distinguished creative producer renowned for her impactful work in the documentary field. Reid will bring her expertise to six carefully selected docuseries projects, guiding them through the initial stages of development. Her role as the leading tutor promises to provide invaluable insights and direction to the participants.
Audience Award at Sheffield DocFest - STRIKE: AN UNCIVIL WAR
STRIKE: AN UNCIVIL WAR WINS AUDIENCE AWARD AT THE 2024 SHEFFIELD DOCFEST
NATIONWIDE PREVIEW SCREENINGS TAKE PLACE TOMORROW, 18 JUNE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF ORGREAVE
Sheffield DocFest announced today that the 2024 Audience Award is presented to Strike: An Uncivil War directed by Daniel Gordon (UK).
The film had its World Premiere at the 31st edition of Sheffield DocFest on 16 June 2024, and director Daniel Gordon and contributors Morag Livingstone, Ian Mitchell, Jim Tierney and Jon McCure were in attendance for a special post-screening conversation.
Strike: An Uncivil War tells the story of the most violent confrontation between miners and police during the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike in Great Britain - The Battle of Orgreave. Nationwide preview screenings will play on 18 June marking the 40th anniversary of the events at Orgreave, before a general theatrical release on 21 June.
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The 19th Geneva International Oriental Film Festival (FIFOG) took place from June 10 to 16 in Geneva. The theme of this year’s edition was Knowledge and Recognition of the Other. It was chaired by Lebanese writer Joumana Haddad.
This year’s edition was a great success, marked by many emotional moments. Festival-goers rediscovered the joy and pleasure of watching a wide variety of films, and exchanging ideas with filmmakers, actors and journalists from all over the world.
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The 71st Sydney Film Festival awarded it's largest ever prize pool at our Closing Night ceremony, including the prestigious Sydney Film Prize to the Italian film There's Still Tomorrow directed by and starring Paola Cortellesi.
The 71st Sydney Film Festival awarded the prestigious Sydney Film Prize to Italian filmmaker Paola Cortellesi for her film There’s Still Tomorrow, a moving, empowering melodrama about an industrious woman in post-WWII Rome. Cortellesi directs and stars in the film, which became a box office phenomenon in Italy, outperforming the likes of Barbie and Oppenheimer.
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2024 BFF AWARDS AND HONORS!
We want to offer a special congratulations to our 2024 festival award winners:
Phoebe-Rae Taylor
2024 See It, Be It Award
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This year’s 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will host actor-director Viggo Mortensen. At the festival’s opening ceremony, Mortensen will receive the Festival President’s Award and also present his film The Dead Don’t Hurt, which he wrote and directed.
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From Tony Armer:
"This Monday morning I have some news I’d like to share with everyone. I have been a Film Commissioner for 10 years now. Eight and a half years with St. Pete Clearwater and the last year and a half with the Dallas Film Commission. After 10 years my time as a Film Commissioner is at an end.
I’m excited to announce that I’m joining Steve Demmler’s Talon Entertainment Finance as the Head of Physical Production. Talon is doing some exciting things in the industry. As a company Talon is really taking off. They are producing films, acquiring soundstages, partnering with established production companies and so much more.
SUPPORT BIFF's "Cinema In Paradise." Enrich your cinematic life and network with diverse, multinational community of artists and audiences through exhibition and education.
Bruno Chatelin is one of BIFF Advisory Board Members.
The Reel Deal
The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), a non-profit organization, is committed to exhibiting diverse films from The Bahamas and around the globe. The primary objective of BIFF is to enhance the cinematic experience for local Bahamian and global audiences, providing them an opportunity to explore diverse films which may not otherwise be available in Bahamian theaters. Additionally, it fosters educational programs and facilitates discussions on cinema's evolution and cultural viewpoints.
Since its establishment in 2004, BIFF has demonstrated remarkable progress, displaying over 1000 local and international films and successfully promoting Bahamian culture to more than a million film professionals and aficionados across the world.
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SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York's 12th annual edition is underway. Following a successful 11th edition, which saw many winners and over 750 films screened to date
SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival is pleased to announce that submissions for its upcoming 2025 edition, #SRFF2025, are now open. This hybrid event provides a unique opportunity for filmmakers worldwide to showcase their socially engaged and relevant works from March 11 to 16, 2025, in person, in New York City, and online afterward. Submissions are accepted on FilmFreeway.
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Submissions are open for 45th Fantasporto
PORTO CITY OF CINEMA, CULTURE, ARCHITECTURE, LEISURE…
THE CITY OF FANTASPORTO
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR THE 45th EDITION
Fantasporto 2025/45th Porto International Film Festival announces the opening of submissions. These take place until November 30th 2024. To do this, producers, sales agents, directors will have to send the film screener to info@fantasporto.com accompanied by the entry form which can be found on the festival website www.fantasporto.com. There, you go to the homepage menu, FESTIVAL 2025, where you can find the event regulations. You must download the entry form or fill it out directly on the website. The festival will take place at Batalha Centro de Cinema from February 28th to March 9th 2025 screening around 100 films, all premieres in Portugal, that is, in national, European, International and World Premieres.
As always, the program includes 4 official competitions: Fantasy Cinema, with competitions for features and short films, Director's Week (all genres, only features), Orient Express dedicated to Asian films (features only) and the Portuguese Cinema Award.
Also important are the retrospectives, the tributes, and the Fantas Classics. Another section called Première will present new but out of competition films.
Welcome to the 45th Fantasporto | Porto International Film Festival
PORTO, WHAT TO SEE, TO EAT, TO DO...
The city at its best
In Time Out - Time Out - Porto- 01-02-2024
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RECAP 7TH EDITION
Highlights from Porto Femme 7th edition.
Porto Femme is a festival of people, and it is because of each one of you that we continue to grow and celebrate cinema.
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'IRUVAM' by Manoj Annadurai pre launched at Cannes from May 17-20, 2024, in the "Let's Spook Cannes 2024 Selection" (one of the 4 selected projects)!
It is currently gearing up to it's release on Indian mobile platforms. It is regarded as one the boldest and most creative initiatives bridging anticipation among cinema and game enthusiasts.
Available on Android and iPhone.Scheduled for late-June 2024. This ensures "Iruvam" delivers a fully immersive and polished gameplay experience. Scheduled for mid-June 2024. This ensures "Iruvam" delivers a fully immersive and polished gameplay experience.
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'LALA, MY REDHEAD' Feature film by Nellie K. and Deniz Nala
at development stage, with a finalised script
Love and poverty, betrayal and wealth - centuries of traditions put to the test! A compelling story intricately woven into a comprehensive exploration of women’s status against the backdrop of the Roma culture. From the director of an award-winning film in Cannes 2023.
“I worked in Cannes with Emir Kusturica as his Sony Distributor on his brilliant award winning film: “Time of The Gypsies”: when I read the script for “Lala, my redhead” I immediately saw the connection and the potential of a unique story: I trust you will like it too. “
Bruno Chatelin - filmfestivals.com founder
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WARRIOR SPIRIT by Will George, 44 mins, CANADA, 2023
A CBC DOCS Original Documentary Film by PROTECT THE INLET FILMS and COEXISTENCE FILMS
A simple window washer and fisherman, Will George’s life transformed when Tsleil-Waututh Elders chose him to protect his Nation's lands and waters against the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX). Will challenges leaders like Justin Trudeau, striving to halt the threat Canada imposed on stolen land. There is a traditional story of a threat like TMX. The voice of Elder Xwechtaal narrates the beginning of the Two-headed Serpent story. As pipeline construction advances and protests escalate, Will intensifies efforts, ultimately facing criminal charges. Despite courtroom racism, he advocates for his people and territory. Returning to the Two-headed Serpent story, the Warrior grapples with people’s doubts, and his own. Will urges people to stand up against injustice and criminalization of Indigenous peoples for protecting lands and waters.
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Wild Genius by Susan Kucera (Living in the future's past, Hot Money, 12th hour...)
Social impact documentary on evolutionary biologist Robert Travis, 1h:12minutes USA December 2023
Wild Genius portrays the exceptional life, career and mental health challenges of living legend Robert Trivers, the evolutionary biologist TIME magazine named as “one of the greatest scientists of the 20th Century”. Harvard psychologist and best selling Author, Steven Pinker calls him “an under-appreciated genius, and one of history’s greatest thinkers in the analysis of behavior and emotion.” An advocate for civil rights, Trivers’ straightforward logic makes an empowering case: understanding our evolutionary past isn't a life sentence but a liberating force. Wild Genius is an entertaining and intellectual odyssey that challenges us to confront our evolutionary roots and societal taboos, daring us to think differently about ourselves and our place in the natural world. This isn't just the story of a groundbreaking scientist; it's an invitation to transform our understanding of life itself. We have the cognitive tools to know ourselves better and, by extension, to make a better world.
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Maya by Julia Verdin
USA 2023 1hour 44 minutes written and directed by Julia 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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RECAP 7TH EDITION
Highlights from Porto Femme 7th edition.
Porto Femme is a festival of people, and it is because of each one of you that we continue to grow and celebrate cinema.
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Le Conseil d’administration de la SACD, présidé, par Virginie Jallot, a distingué cette année 36 autrices, auteurs et personnalités par un Prix SACD. Confirmés et nouveaux talents, toutes les disciplines et répertoires de la SACD sont célébrés par un prix : théâtre, mise en scène, cinéma, danse, animation, télévision, musique, création numérique, arts du cirque, arts de la rue, radio, humour/one (wo)man show.
Voici les 25 prix de la SACD et les médailles Beaumarchais, remis ce soir aux 36 lauréats 2024.
Le Palmarès 2024
GRAND PRIX : Claude LELOUCH
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La Maison Templar et Art Expo Première proposent une exposition singulière autour de Marilyn Monroe. La plus célèbre des icônes se dévoile comme peu l’ont perçu à travers des photos inédites, des écrits et des objets qui dressent le portrait d’une femme aussi forte qu’intelligente, cultivée que réservée. A travers plus de 240 photos et de nombreuses anecdotes, le public découvrira un autre visage de Marilyn, celui d’une pionnière engagée qui tient tête aux plus grands d’Hollywood, une avant-gardiste féministe lanceuse d’alertes avant l’heure.
Marilyn Monroe, le secret de l’Amérique est à découvrir sans attendre aux Espaces EDF Bazacle à Toulouse jusqu’au 3 novembre.
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C'est un fait : La pandémie de Covid-19 a profondément affecté la fréquentation des lieux culturels, faisant chuter drastiquement le nombre de visiteurs. En 2022, bien qu'étant deux ans post-pandémie, on enregistrait une baisse de la fréquentation de 28 % par rapport aux mois équivalents de 2019 ( source).
C'était sans compter sur YouFeel, une application mobile qui entend bien revitaliser et transformer l'engagement du public pour le secteur culturel.
Comment ? En capitalisant sur une passion collective : la collection !
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LES JURYS DE LA 35e ÉDITION
THE 35th EDITION JURIES
We are delighted to introduce the members of the 35th edition juries of FIDMarseille.
Nous sommes ravi·e·s de vous présenter les membres des jurys de la 35e édition du FIDMarseille.
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LES SÉANCES SPÉCIALES DE LA 35e ÉDITION THE 35TH EDITION SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Les Séances spéciales, également hors compétition, sont programmées avec certains de nos partenaires : Région Sud, European Film Awards / Swissfilm, Doc Alliance, Casa de Velázquez, et le Festival de Marseille.
The Special Screenings, also out of competition, are programmed with our partners: Région Sud, European Film Awards / Swissfilm, Doc Alliance, Casa de Velásquez, and Festival de Marseille.
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Court Métrange | 20e édition | 26 sept. - 06 oct. 2024
Festival international de court métrage insolite et fantastique | Rennes
Tous les amis de l'étrange, de l'insolite et du fantastique sont attendus à Rennes, du 26 septembre au 6 octobre 2024 pour souffler les 20 bougies du festival !
Au menu de cette édition anniversaire qui célébrera deux décennies de voyages aux confins de l’imaginaire : rétros, best-off, bilan et gâteaux !
En 20 ans, la réputation de Court Métrange a largement dépassé les frontières bretonnes. Le festival Court Métrange est aujourd'hui une manifestation de référence pour la filière cinématographique du cinéma de genre, et une étape primordiale pour beaucoup de professionnel·le.s.
Les affiches étranges et fantastiques imaginées par l’ agence Kerozen contribuent à ce rayonnement ; celle conçue pour cette édition anniversaire est une invitation à venir célébrer deux décennies d’émerveillement et de frisson par le biais du fantastique !
SUPPORT BIFF's "Cinema In Paradise." Enrich your cinematic life and network with diverse, multinational community of artists and audiences through exhibition and education.
Bruno Chatelin is one of BIFF Advisory Board Members.
The Reel Deal
The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), a non-profit organization, is committed to exhibiting diverse films from The Bahamas and around the globe. The primary objective of BIFF is to enhance the cinematic experience for local Bahamian and global audiences, providing them an opportunity to explore diverse films which may not otherwise be available in Bahamian theaters. Additionally, it fosters educational programs and facilitates discussions on cinema's evolution and cultural viewpoints.
Since its establishment in 2004, BIFF has demonstrated remarkable progress, displaying over 1000 local and international films and successfully promoting Bahamian culture to more than a million film professionals and aficionados across the world.
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