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The Little Sister (2025) is the film adaptation of an autofiction novel by Fatima Daas titled The Last One (2020). This film marks Hafsia Herzi’s third film as a director and writer, directing and writing two other feature-length films: You Deserve a Lover (2019) and Good Mother (2021). However, Hafsia Herzi is a triple threat, starting her career as an actor before transitioning to a filmmaker, first acting in The Secret of the Grain (2007), then starring in House of Tolerance (2011)...
It Was Just an Accident (2025) is an Iranian-made film made without authorization from the Iranian government. The drama was directed, written, and co-produced by Jafar Panahi. Jafar is a central part of Iranian new wave cinema with films such as The White Balloon (1995), The Circle (2000), and Crimson Gold (2003); all three films reflect the movement's themes of social critique, formal restraint, and realism. The cas...
The 2025 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) will showcase a compelling selection of documentaries in its doc@PÖFF International and Baltic Competitions. For the first time, Baltic documentaries and feature films will compete in separate programmes.
The 2025 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) will showcase a compelling selection of documentaries in its Doc@PÖFF International and Baltic Competitions. For the first time, Baltic documentaries and f...
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) is set to showcase a provocative selection of debut feature films this year. A total of 13 films will compete for the Best Debut Film Award, including 9 world premieres and 4 international premieres. All of the authors will be present in Tallinn.
A Global Selection
Ten of the films come from Europe, while Mexico, Taiwan, and Kyrgyzstan are represented from outside the continent.
Program curator Triin Tramberg&...
Ching’s Secret Attack, now in a new, 9 minute, video pack
Few people know the recipé of this concoction. Those who know are keeping it a secret. But they have managed to sell millions/billions of sachets of this ‘Desi Chinese’ product, without spilling the beans. Ching, a variation of Qing, refers to the Manchu dynasty in China, which ruled during 1644–1912, and was the last imperial dynasty that ruled the country. In Mandarin Chinese, thousands of words have va...
By Liza Foreman
In Bleeding Blue Bird, Paris-based director Lev Prudkin opens a trapdoor beneath the stage and plunges us into the metaphysical. Making its world premiere in New York on October 18, the film introduces a surreal fever dream of theatrical obsession, identity fracture, and the dangerous blurring of art and life in this UK-Russia-Ukraine co-production, shot on location in Kyiv before the war. The film is currently seeking distribution.
Starrin...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Today you are going to become Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, or simple George Méliès, the French magician turned filmmaker who gave the world “A Trip to The Moon,” complete with rocket-induced black eye. Of course if we think rockets, we think Rocketman, formally known as Elon Musk who bought Twitter, dubbed it X, and is now giving away for free an opportunity to try out his text-to-video via prompt applicatio...
By Liza Foreman
In Bleeding Blue Bird, Paris-based director Lev Prudkin opens a trapdoor beneath the stage and plunges us into the metaphysical. Making its world premiere in New York on October 18, the film introduces a surreal fever dream of theatrical obsession, identity fracture, and the dangerous blurring of art and life in this UK-Russia-Ukraine co-production, shot on location in Kyiv before the war. The film is currently seeking distribution.
Starring Arthur ...
By Liza Foreman
In Bleeding Blue Bird, Paris-based director Lev Prudkin opens a trapdoor beneath the stage and plunges us into the metaphysical. Making its world premiere in New York on October 18, the film introduces a surreal fever dream of theatrical obsession, identity fracture, and the dangerous blurring of art and life in this UK-Russia-Ukraine co-production, shot on location in Kyiv before the war. The film is currently seeking distribution.
Starring Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) as a tormented theatre director and Hannah Arterton (Walking on Sunshine, The Peripheral) as a mythic Queen of Night, the film is anything but a conventional drama. Set against the haunting backdrop of a production of The Blue Bird, Prudkin’s film becomes a shape‑shifting spectacle—one where the performance begins to leak into the performers’ very lives.
Bleeding Blue Bird is not an adaptation of Maeterlinck but a film about what happens when art escapes the stage and invades life.
Film school is one of the most exhilarating places to be right now. The industry is evolving faster than ever - streaming platforms are booming, independent filmmakers are gaining global audiences through social media, and AI is reshaping production workflows. For cinematography and film studies students, this is both thrilling and a little terrifying. How do you find your place in a world that seems to reinvent itself every few months?
The truth is, success in film today isn't about w...
Photo by cottonbro studio
The landscape of independent film promotion is changing fast. Emerging filmmakers no longer rely solely on festival submissions, word-of-mouth, or expensive PR campaigns to make their mark. Instead, they are turning to digital platforms where short, punchy videos and authentic storytelling can catapult a student project into public consciousness overnight. In this shifting environment, finding a reliable research paper writer can help film students manage their...
The cry of the city: poverty, power, and the monkeys of Lutyens' New Delhi in ‘‘Eeb Allay Ooo’’ directed by Prateek Vats © by film critic Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI)
Director Prateek Vats’ ‘‘Eeb Allay Ooo’’ (2019) is one of the most strikingly original Indian films of recent years — a daring blend of absurdist satire, social realism, and political commentary. It takes an idea so improbable that ...
Vintage Battleship Potemkin poster. 1925. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the film Battleship Potemkin, and as a result, VTIFF will be holding a special screening of the film on October 19th, 2025. The groundbreaking silent epic was used by its director, Sergei Eisenstein, to innovate and perfect one of cinema’s most foundational aspects, the montage.
Originally commissioned 20 years after the 1905 Russian Revolution ...
Poster for It Was Just An Accident
It Was Just an Accident (2025) is an Iranian-made film made without authorization from the Iranian government. The drama was directed, written, and co-produced by Jafar Panahi. Jafar is a central part of Iranian new wave cinema with films such as The White Balloon (1995), The Circle (2000), and Crimson Gold (2003); all three films reflect the movement's themes of social critique,...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Whether you like or loath Elon Musk and his many-hatted empire from X to cars and tunnels to rockets, it’s beyond time to talk about his GROK and Grok Imagine as a disruptor that may upend Hollywood more than Netflix or the other streamers.
This is Part I of 2, by the way; and you may wonder why Grok will rock the Hollywood boat? Because right now Musk is giving away access to Grok Imagine’s considerable film-making capabilities to ...
Joële Walinga and Daniel Warth open ‘CASA PIP’ as a free, counter-residence program that opens its doors to all film-workers.
CASA PIP co-founders and award-winning filmmakers, Joële Walinga and Daniel Warth.
Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Joële Walinga (God Straightens Legs, Self-Portrait), and award-winning Canadian-Portuguese filmmaker Daniel Warth (Untold Hours, Dim the Fluorescents) announce the opening of newly founded film residency program, CASA PIP....
Rental Family 16-19 Oct | Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, Vue West End
After his Oscar success with The Whale, Brendan Fraser returns to LFF, starring in HIKARI’s rich and heartwarming tale of a struggling American actor searching for a connection in Tokyo.
Phillip Vanderpleog lives in the Japanese capital. Looking for any work opportunities, he is employed by a ‘rental family’ company, which provides clients with...
Following the decision of the selection committee who were brought together by the CNC on September 17 Jafar Panahi' s film A simple Accident has been picked to represent France for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film in 2026.
Filmfestivals.com congratulates the whole team, Jafar Panahi, his French producer Philippe Martin (Les Films Pelléas), and co-producers Arte France Cinéma, Pio & Co and Bidibul Productions the film is currently shown in french ...
FICCI FRAMES 2025, 05: Padma Shri Akshay Kumar and Ayushmann Khurrana, BA
FICCI FRAMES the annual Media and Entertainment Convention event, was held over two days, October 07 and 08, at the Fairmont Hotel, near CSMI Airport, Sahar, Mumbai. RISE: Redefining Innovation, Sustainability, and Excellence was the theme for the convention this year. The inauguration of the event, on the morning of October 07, was graced by India’s Information and Broadcasting Secretary in the Union Govern...
Gabby’s Dollhouse, Review: A tonic for every catatonic
Gabby Dollhouse is the second live-action film produced by DreamWorks Animation, after the 2025 remake of How to Train Your Dragon (2010). It is also DreamWorks Animation's first live-action +animation film that is not a remake. DreamWorks is a ComCast company, as is the international distributor of the film, Universal. It is the big screen version of Gabby's Dollhouse an American interactive television series, premiè...
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS 2025:
BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!!!
Once again, Universal Studios Hollywood is launching the most fun and horrific moment of the year with their ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ (https://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/hhn/en/us )
Until November 2nd, face and test your fears with more than alive Horror encounters with the themes of ‘Fallout’, ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’, and the Iconic &lsq...
Apple TV+ celebrated the world premiere of the five-part documentary event “Mr. Scorsese” at the 2025 New York Film Festival with director Rebecca Miller and legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese
In attendance at the world premiere were friends and long-time collaborators of Scorsese, including De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Josh Safdie, Jay Cocks, Nick Pileggi, Irwin Winkler, Ari Aster, Mark Harris and Ellen Lewis, along with the Scorsese daughters Cathy, Domenica an...
Kantara, A Legend, Chapter 1: All’s well that ends in a Well
How many times can you scream out long war-cries in a film that is 168 minutes long? Theoretically, maybe around 2,520 times. Kantara, A Legend, Chapter 1 does not clock anywhere near that number, hovering, most probably, around a mere 252 times. That shows consideration and sympathy for your tympanic membranes, aka ear-drums. In between, it lets out a barrage of voice overs, dubbed dialogue (I saw the Hindustani version of th...
Directed by Gabriel Beristain and Starring Golsa Sarabi, Sean Kanan, and Shila Ommi, Film Explores the Poignant Struggles of Identity, Resilience, and Sacrifice Through Art
Award-winning director and cinematographer Gabriel Beristain leads the powerful new drama The Persian Rug, set for a weeklong Oscar®-qualifying run at CineLounge Sunset before its much-anticipated world festival premiere at the DaVinci International Film Festival (DIFF) on Octob...
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