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Sundance Institute has announced the short films that will be a part of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival programming. The Festival will take place January 18–28, 2024, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from January 25–28, 2024. The Festival will introduce new short films for 2024 across eight curated programs.
“Selecting the shorts for the Festival Program every year is an exercise in taki...
Opening the act was Yasir Al Yasiri’s HWJN, with its world première and the screening was attended by the director and lead cast: Nour Alkhadra, Baraa Alem, Naif Aldaferi, Alanoud Saud, Mohsen Mansour and Shaimaa Al Tayeb. Jury President Baz Lurhmann was in attendance, with his jury - Joel Kinnaman, Freida Pinto, Amina Khalil, Paz Vega, Hana Alomair and Fatih Akin. Some members of the jury are very familiar to Indian audiences, and I am some more will get familiar soon.
The...
Competition Section films that I saw, and my opinions about them.
THE TEACHER
Palestinian school-teacher Basem (Saleh Bakri) grapples with personal devastation, after a tragic incident involving his son, who dies in custody merely suspected of participation in a protest. His life takes an unexpected turn when he forms a deep connection with Adam, one of his traumatised students, who has suffered personal losses in the ongoing conflict. He also develops an unexpected bond with British s...
RSIFF: Competing against the best
I wrote about Insha’Allah, a Boy in the last instalment. Now I shall talk about the other competition films I have seen.
BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS
A meta-physical film that starts with a man entering the office where he works, and smashing the furniture. He then jumps out of the window, and behold! He survives the fall. The man is Rafik, is a desperate man. He is now convinced he can fly, and is determined, in the face of his family scepticism, to prove to h...
RSIFF: Raising the curtain, well begun is half done
At the Spectacular festival, the opening film had to be one from the Spectacular Gala. They chose a supernatural comedy, called Hjwn. In attendance were music video specialist Yasir Alyasiri (Iraqi director; producer writer On Borrowed Time-2018, 122-2019, Murk Light 2012-3), Nour Alkhadra (actress), Baraa Alem (actor), Naif Aldaferi (actor) and Shaimaa Al Tayeb (actress). Based on the best-selling Saudi Arabian fantasy novel by Ibraheem Abb...
RSIFF: Elusive interviews, while the stars emerge from the Red Sea
Some three weeks before the festival began, while still in Mumbai, I thought of doing an exclusive interview with Shivani Pandya Malhotra, and some 2-3 other curtain-raisers. Now this could only be done via video or audio or email. I was ready for any of the three modes. But I had no way of contacting these officials, and approached the PR agency to help me out, which said that organising interviews were strictly its d...
RSIFF: A Colourful Ocean of remarkable films at the Red Sea
RSIFF: A Colourful Ocean of remarkable films at the Red Sea
A film festival named after the Red Sea? Where is the Red Sea? Let me see…it touches Eritrea, Djibouti, Egypt and Jeddah. A film festival in Jeddah? Ok, so Jeddah is by the sea, and a good location to hold a film festival. A film festival organised in Saudi Arabia? You will be surprised.
Incidentally, this was not the first edition, but the third. For me, t...
Red Sea International Film Festival, 2023: A royal pilgrimage for film-buffs
On the registration form, there was question, ‘Will you be going to the Medina pilgrimage?’ I wasn’t, so I typed, “No”. On the Saudi Airlines direct flight from Mumbai to Jeddah, the man seated behind me asked me the same question. “I could take you to Medina. It is only 480 kms from Jeddah, but at 180 kms per hour, we will take you there ...
Red Sea International Film Festival, 2023: A royal pilgrimage for film-buffs
On the registration form, there was question, ‘Will you be going to the Medina pilgrimage?’ I wasn’t, so I typed, “No”. On the Saudi Airlines direct flight from Mumbai to Jeddah, the man seated behind me asked me the same question. “I could take you to Medina. It is only 480 kms from Jeddah, but at 180 kms per hour, we will take you there in no time.” Turned out that he was a...
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Evelina Christillin, the President of the Egyptian Museum in Torino aka Museo Egizio gave a press conference on 26.11, presenting the new documentary "Immortals. The wonders of the Museo Egizio" . Our interview took place after the press conference.
Evelina Christillin is a powerful woman. From 2000 to 2007 Evelina Christillin, acting as Vice President Vicar of the TOROC - Committee for the Organization of the Winter Olympi...
Celebrating with Fatima Kaci winner for "The Voice of Others" at the closing party on 18.11.2023, her friend German actor Richard Manualpillai took our picture
Of course Munich as a city is always worth visiting, and in case you are into films you should not miss the international film festivals taking place in the Bavarian capital, bringing glamour into the city, transforming several spots into red carpet venues. This transformation occures not only once but twice a ye...
THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995
Feel the beat from AFM, Ventana Sur, EFA, Tallinn, Newport Beach, Denver, AFI FEST, Ojay, Heartland Fest, Hong Kong, Annecy, SCAD Savannah Film Festival, and many more festivals which we are following for you!
Filmfestivals.com will cover next Ventana Sur and RSIFF with online dailies: take centre stage
Ventana Sur takes places November ...
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Kurosawa Award Recipients Envision Brighter Futures
The Tokyo International Film Festival revived the Kurosawa Akira Award in 2022 for the first time in 14 years to mark the renowned auteur’s legacy and ongoing influence. At the current 2023 edition, at the strong urging of veteran director Yamada Yoji, who served as the chairman of the selection committee, young film directors who are expected to shape the future of the world’s film industry are being honored ...
INVITE THE MOVIE STARS TO YOUR HOMETOWN
31. FILMFEST HAMBURG
FILMFEST HAMBURG opens on 28 September with the Jordanian film Inshallah a Boy by Amjad Al Rasheed and ends on 7 October with the Swedish contribution Paradise is Burning by Mika Gustafson. For the second time, the Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival will be hosting its nati
Isabelle Huppert and many other celebrities show their commitment at the Better World Fund
Auction for the Maria Callas Foundation
Interview with American actor Jeremy Piven who receives the Best Commitment Award from Tarina Patel
Manuel Collas de la Roche and Jeremy Piven among guests
from left to right: Tarina Patel, Solanges Vivens, Manuel Collas de la Roche and Elisabeth Moreno
Scarlett Baya Avedikian with Mischa Aznavour
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Superhero comedy short S.Q.U.A.D. is taking the global festival circuit by storm, being named an official selection at the Urban Arts Festival in Dallas, Milan Shorts Film Festival in Italy, and Paris International Short Festival in France. The film world premiered at the Jersey Short Film Festival in early July, and will have its West Coast U.S.A. premiere on September 8th at TCL Theatres in Hollywood (Theatre 4, Block J, 2:05 pm PST) , as an ...
Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival took place 22-26 of August 2023, Alice Kanterian was a guest and covered for filmfestivals.com.
THE OPENING CEREMONY AND THE SVANETI HERITAGE
Pictured: the jury of the film festival with festival director Khatuna Khundadze and deputy director of the ...
The Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival, the next exciting film festival on our festival circuit will take place 22-26.08.2023. The idea of establishing a mountain-themed film festival in the beautiful Georgian town Mestia, was born while Khatuna Khundadze was discussing with Gegi Faliani the director of the Mestia Culture and Art Center, that there was no such festival in the Caucasus mountain region, while Mestia wellknown. Khundadze explains: "We didn't think too ...
It was with an Austrian film ‘‘Alma and Oskar’’ directed by Dieter Berner that 53rd International Film Festival of India 2022 got off to a good start. It is a film about one of the greatest expressionist artists of the 20th century Oskar Kokoschka who dominated the world of painting in Austria during 1900s. In the history of IFFI, it was for the first time that an Austrian film was chosen as the opening film. Apart from the director Dieter Berner, the film’s produ...
On the heels of a very successful world premiere at the Jersey Short Film Festival in early July, superhero comedy short S.Q.U.A.D. is taking the global festival circuit by storm, being named an official selection at the Urban Arts Festival in Dallas, Milan Shorts Film Festival in Italy, and Paris International Short Festival in France.
The film, directed by Ethan Cyr, Dakota Holmes-Dodge, and Carlos Lavezzari, explores the i...
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Wonderful! Our film is nominated for the BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR at the Digital Griffix Film Awards in MONTREAL, Canada! Here is a quote from the film festival about the jury: "Our jury is composed of award-winning filmmakers who perfectly understand the hard work put into independent filmmaking!" We are overjoyed and very proud! Thank you to our cast and crew members and everyone who supported us in the process!
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/oXuEJiN3rD0
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With Mammoth Film Festival 2023 less than days away, the festival continues to reveal incredible work being showcased in this year's lineup, revealing their opening night premiere announcement and new exciting slate additions. This year is also a true buyers market, with previous festivals resulting in a variety of sales across all genres from features to episodic to documentaries. Mammoth Film Festival’s international status is also growing exponentially, with this year’s arra...
We are delighted that our film received the HONORABLE MENTION for BEST ORIGINAL SCORE and at the same time the OFFICIAL SELECTION for BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY at the Florence Film Awards in Italy! We are honored that our film was very well received in the beautiful city of Florence! We thank all our film team members and all supporters!
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/oXuEJiN3rD0
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/sDsy_MdP4gE
More information: https://heidelerche-fil...
GREAT NEWS! Official Selection in INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION at SANFICI - Santander Festival internacional de cine independiente in Bucaramanga, Colombia! SANFICI promises "5 intense days of the best independent cinema"! Our film will be shown on February 23, 2023 at 4pm at the Auditorio Luis A. Calvo - which makes us tremendously happy because the auditorium seats 989! We thank the cast and crew, and all the supporters who believed in us!
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/oXu...
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