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The Festival Beat N°1174 Locarno, Venice in Focus

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AMERICAN FILM MARKET SETS FIRST-EVER THEME FOR THE 2026 EDITION: THE NEW GLOBAL SCREEN ECONOMY

The American Film Market® (AFM®) today announced its first-ever unifying theme, “The New Global Screen Economy,” positioning the 2026 market around the shifts redefining how content is financed, produced, distributed, and brought to audiences worldwide. AFM’s 47th edition will take place November 10–15, 2026, in Los Angeles, with headquarters at the Fairmont Century Plaza and screenings held at AMC Century City 15....

The 49th Denver Film Festival returns October 22nd - November 1st

The 49th Denver Film Festival returns October 22nd - November 1st, 2026! Featuring a curated lineup of the best cinema from around the world, community conversations, parties, and even more for you...

The 21st Tartuff Brings reveals its program: Eight Days of Love Stories Under the Open Sky

From 8–15 August, the 21st Tartuff festival will once again turn Tartu Town Hall Square into Estonia's largest open-air cinema. Expanding to an eight-day programme for the first time, this year's...

The countdown to SCFF 2026 is on, and we’re inviting you to be part of the story !

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be gathering around great films, lively conversations, creative workshops, local food and unforgettable Santa Cruz experiences. Whether you’re a filmmaker, a devoted...

NYC's Winter Film Festival - Call for Entries

Winter Film Festival has opened for submissions for its 15th annual edition, to be held February 24-28 2027. Underrepresented voices in film to be featured at NYC’s celebration of local and global Indie Film. Filmmakers worldwide invited to submit work!

CORONADO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS NOV. 4-8, 2026

The Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF) will return to the star-studded shores of Coronado, California, Wednesday, Nov. 4 through Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026. The event will feature five days of...

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WHITENESS Interview with the director

WHITENESS Interview with director/writer: Alessio Cappelleti by Emmanuel Itier “Whiteness”, written and directed by talented Alessio Cappelleti was screened at the legendary Raindance Film Festival in...

Max, Min & Meowzaki, Review: Cats, Crying and Conflict

Max, Min & Meowzaki, Review: Cats, Crying and ConflictWhat are the chances that you will understand what the title means? 50%. Max is obviously a name, usually an abbreviation of Maxim or...

SB Productions Unveils 12 HOURS at Exclusive Industry Screening Ahead of Festival Run

Matt Sierra, Sharmarke Mohamed, Mohamed A. Bere, Mimi Dybs, Eve RichardsSB Productions hosted a successful first look private industry screening event for its psychological horror short 12 HOURS,...

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Coming Home from ShadowLand to SpiritWorld

USA April 2026 85 minutes documentary film by J.Mitchell Johnson & Daniel Golding (Quechan Indian tribe)

Coming Home: From Shadowland to Spiritworld is the story of a California native tribe’s surprisingly successful recovery of sacred land and their unique quest for reunification with descendants of tribal women taken to Russia at the end of that country’s brief colonial enterprise on the California coast.

Shot over a period of 14 years beginning in 2012 in a cinéma vérité style, Coming Home: From
Shadowland to Spiritworld follows the story of the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians as they undertake an extraordinary effort to reclaim their ancestral lands on the Sonoma Coast after 170 years of displacement. Interweaving the little-known history of Russian colonization in California with a modern story of negotiation, diplomacy, and ceremony, the film shows how land repatriation becomes a powerful act of cultural renewal. The Kashia tell their own story without a third-party narrator as they confront the legacy of historical trauma—including generational loss and the ongoing impacts of colonialism—the return to their sacred places like Metini and Danaka reveals how restoring land can help restore identity, resilience, and community.

After sacred land goes up for sale following 170 years of dispossession brought-on by

the California genocide of native peoples, Kashia Pomo tribal-elder (OTIS PARRISH) mentors a pair of young tribal members (MARTINA MORGAN and JERRY PINOLA) on a journey seeking coastal land return and self-recovery that inspires healing, spiritual revival, and a search for the truth about those tribal members gone missing and murdered.

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STAKEOUT by Riker Lynch USA 90 minutes April 26

Suspicious of his new girlfriend, Jon enlists his wannabe-detective best friend for a DIY stakeout - only to stumble on a dangerous secret that puts them in way over their heads.

Action, comedy romantic thriller by Riker Lynch Writer, Director, Producer

Produced by Billy Gould, Ross Lynch, Gordy De St. Jeor and Riker Lynch

Casting: Riker Lynch, Titus Makin, Bella Martinez, Samuel Del Real, Curt Mega, Sammy Ferrenbach,Bobby UKey, Kayden Muller-Janssen

Riker’s band is ready to perform in sync with festival screenings.

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IN THE COMPANY OF WOLVES: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY Documentary by Susan Kucera

1 hour 21 minutes
USA, December 2025

The American West is a mythos known around the world — a landscape of freedom, rugged individualism, boundless possibility, and the collision of human ambition with ecological reality. This film explores the truth beneath it, revealing how wolves — and the domesticated animals traveling in their wake — shaped our ideas, our folklore, and our sense of nationhood, altering the course of American history as profoundly as any human hand.

Academy-Award winner, JEFF BRIDGES narrates this stunning journey, following wolves as co-travelers through American history — from the shores of England to the birth of the New Republic and ultimately the colonization of the vast, contested landscapes of the modern American West. A place where the ensemble doesn’t merely walk through history; they trot, lope, stampede, and migrate across it reminding us that the connection between the wild and the domesticated have always reflected a deeper story of who we are as a nation — and who we might yet become.

Susan Kucera and Academy Award winner, Jeff Bridges, team up for their 3rd Documentary Film together, In the Company of Wolves; An American Journey. This is Susan's 8th documentary film following award winning films such as, Living in the Future's Past, Hot Money, 12th Hour, For the Love of Tango, Wild Genius, Breath of Life and Trading on Thin Air. She spent her youth filming on the ice fields of the Athabasca Glacier and has a deep love of nature, cinematography, animals and the great outdoors.

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"Lala my readhead" script by Nellie K. and Deniz Nala

'LALA, MY REDHEAD'

Feature film by Nellie K. and Deniz Nala

in development stage, with a finalised script

Looking for support: partners and financiers.

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.

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Award nominations for the 10th Anniversary Festival of Cinema NYC

Announcing this year's Nominees!We are proud to announce the award nominations for the 10th Anniversary Festival of Cinema NYC.Each year Festival of Cinema NYC nominates films from the year's...

The Odyssey Casting Call & Top 10 Kissing Co-Stars

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Last night on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," Zendaya just recounted how Tom Holland got the call for The Odyssey casting. Naturally it came...

Ira Sachs and Rami Malek in conversation for the film "THE MAN I LOVE"

Rami Malek and Ira Sachs interviewed by Variety reporter The man I love in competition at Cannes Film Festival As part of Kering’s Women In Motion program taking place at the Cannes Film Festival,...

Le Yaka Paddle Festival lance son Festival du Film d'Inclusion et d'Aventures

Et si le cinéma devenait un formidable vecteur d'inclusion ?À l'occasion de sa 5ᵉ édition, le Yaka Paddle Festival lance son Festival du Film d'Inclusion et d'Aventures, un rendez-vous qui met en...

Locarno79 lève le voile sur ses jurys

Le compte à rebours de la 79e édition du Locarno Film Festival est officiellement lancé, et la manifestation dévoile aujourd’hui la composition de ses jurys. Cinéastes, comédien·nes, producteur·ices,...

Kiberlain, Huppert, Luchini... le FIFF Namur dévoile ses stars pour ouvrir et clôturer sa 41e édition !

Vous l'attendiez, nous l'attendions : voici les premiers films de la programmation de la 41e édition du Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur ! Le Festival s’ouvrira le mercredi 30...

Le Festival International du Film de Saint-Jean-de-Luz présente la présidente du jury 2026

À Chamonix, un glacier disparu devient le point de départ d’une enquête menée par des enfants et d un court métrage associatif

À Chamonix, un glacier disparu devient le point de départ d'une enquête menée par des enfants : Choisis Ta Planète tourne son 30e court-métrage et lance une plateforme éducative pour accompagner les...