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WELCOME JAMES WOOLLEY, NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL!
As the Miami Film Festival (MFF) celebrated its 40th anniversary earlier this year and prepares for the upcoming 10th anniversary of its GEMS festival, taking place Nov. 2-5, 2023, we are excited to welcome the Festival's new Executive Director, James Woolley.
“I am excited about this opportunity to lead the acclaimed Miami Film Festival, an institution I highly admire,” Woo...
GEMS will feature 26 films from 14 countries, opening with the Mexican drama “Radical.” Four Centerpiece Screenings – the survivalist thriller “Society of the Snow,” the animated feature “The Boy and the Heron,” provocative comedy “American Fiction” and psychological thriller drama “Saltburn”– leading to the closing night feature, “The Holdovers,” a comedy-drama by Alexander Payne starri...
THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995
Feel the beat from EFA, AFI, New York, Chelsea, Hamburg, DOCK, Ojai, Sonoma, Bushwick, Warsaw, Nature Track,Punto y Raya, Clermont Ferrand, Arte Mare, San Sebastian, and many more we are following for you!
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By Phillip Bergson
Member of International Jury 17--22 September 2023
The interest in historical cinema over the past decade is a trend in contemporary documentaries. Bearing this concept in mind not only across screens globally, but also here in Bulgaria, we were launching the largest forum for International Historic Documentary Cinema – DOCK. It will take place in Burgas over 5 days – between the 17th and the 22nd of September 2022..
The inaugural edition o...
After a highly successful festival of well-attended screenings and events, the 43rd edition of the Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF) is pleased to announce its 2023 award winners.
Best Atlantic Editor
Sponsored by the Canadian Cinema Editors
Winner: Justin Oakey
THE KING TIDE
David Renton Award for Outstanding Performance
Sponsored by Sky Talent
Winner: Susan Kent
WHO’S YER FATHER?
Joan Orenstein Award for Outstanding Pe...
We’re thrilled to announce the full lineup for the 37th edition of AFI FEST!
October 25-29
TCL Chinese Theatres
141 Films
49 Countries
18 International Oscar® Submissions
10 Special Screenings
44% of Films Directed by Women
And More!
VIEW FULL PROGRAM GUIDE
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The 39th Warsaw International Film Festival will begin on Friday, October 6, and end on Sunday, October 15, 2023. The festival cinemas will be Atlantic and Multikino Zlote Tarasy.
We have selected films for the program from 4,800 submissions, sent from 111 countries. During the WFF we will present:
- 77 feature-length films, including 23 world premieres, 9 international premieres, 6 European premieres, 15 Eastern European premieres and 17 Polish premieres.
- 61 short films.
Films w...
Ingrid and Sonia Jean-Baptiste revealed the CFF 2023 JURY
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'O corno / The Rye Horn' lands the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival's 71st edition
The feature film O corno / The Rye Horn (Spain-Portugal-Belgium), directed by Jaione Camborda from San Sebastian, carried off the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival's 71st edition. In addition, the official jury decided to give the Silver Shell for Best Director to Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang for Chun xing / A Journey in Spring (Taiwan), while the Best Scre...
On the stage at the Vitoria Eugenia theatre where fifty years ago he received the Golden Shell for his first film El Espíritu de la colmena, Victor Erice picked up the Donostia Award last night. The actress Ana Torrent, who as a child starred in the very same film, had the honour of presenting the director with the statuette, and said that it was enormously moving to give Erice the award “50 years after coming together in the same place to present El espíritu de l...
Hafez Awards, the biggest cinema and television event organized by the private sector in Iran, to the extent that a special "Abbas Kiarostami" award is presented to the best experimental film at the ceremony.
This fall, 22nd film and television ceremony of Picture World Magazine (Hafez Awards), the recognition of Iranian cinema and television will be held. A ceremony directed and produced by Omid Moallem and produced by Azar memarian in which Asghar Farhadi and Mehran Modiri are the...
Ron Truppa, Bruce Davison 2023 Career Tribute Award Honoree
CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL WRAPS 13th ANNUAL EVENT WITH AWARDS PRESENTATION & HONORS ACTOR BRUCE DAVISON WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Notable Festival Attendees include Actors Katrina Law, Lily Brooks O’Briant, Page Kennedy, Wally Kurth and Director Ashley Avis
VIRTUAL FEST SCREENS ONLINE VIA EOAPP FROM SEPT 29TH-OCTOBER 8TH
Catalina Film Festival (CFF) wrapped their 13th annual c...
We stand behind Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland (photo by Jacek Poremba)
We are stunned by the current personal hostility and threats from the Polish Minister of Justice, Mr Zbigniew Ziobro, against the President of the European Film Academy, the highly acclaimed filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, at a high political level because of her film ZIELONCA GRANICA (THE GREEN BORDER). Agni...
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, screening Oct. 11 & 12 (courtesy of Janus Films)
Get ready for the 61st New York Film Festival, kicking off September 29! Limited tickets are available and selling fast. Explore the schedule, see filmmakers attending for Q&As on film pages, download a PDF of our program guide, and subscribe to our newly launched Reddit community.
Week 1 essential picks w...
The tenth Lunenburg Doc Fest wrapped a showcase of the best and newest Canadian and International documentaries, September 21-27, in beautiful UNESCO Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
AWARD WINNERS!
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Zinemadia Startup Challenge falls within the framework of Zinemaldia & Technology, promote by the Basque Governement through the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment and SPRI
The competition for Spanish startups is part of “Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech”, one of the axes of Spanish Screenings XXL.
The Basque Government, through the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment, promotes the Zinemaldia Startup...
Don't miss the Festival's curated screenings by female filmmakers, and our Panel discussion: "Unstoppable Women" *
This panel highlights women filmmakers who are breaking stereotypes and making a unique impact in the film and entertainment industry.
Panel Moderated by Sandra Maas, Board President of the Women's Museum of California.
This event is presented in conjunction with Mind|Body|Soul Magazine.
Watch these films and join us in the Fe...
The Grand Prix of the Golden Prague International Television Festival has been awarded to the German picture Orphea in Love.
The winner was selected by a five-member international jury chaired by the German director and producer Reiner E. Moritz. As many as 83 films were registered in the competition for seven prizes. The Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 Prize went to the creators of the film Nikola Márová: Portrait of a Prima Ballerina produced by C...
Hot on the heels of its double hat-trick of awards at Cannes, Rotterdam Arab Film Festival and Paysages de Cinéastes Festival, Amjad Al-Rasheed's INSHALLAH A BOY was just selected as Jordan’s official submission for Best Foreign Film at the 96th Academy Awards by the Royal Film Commission-Jordan.
Following its historic world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival's Critics Week, where it received the Gan Foundation Award and the Rail d'Or Award for Best Feature ...
After the earlier announcement of 19 feature films that are part of the European Film Academy’s Film Selection 2023, 21 more titles have been added to the shortlist for the European Film Awards.
The Academy Selection represents every year the very best of European cinema and aims to promote the films. All work of the European Film Academy is based on our Diversity and Inclusion standards, ensuring that everyone in Europe is considered and has an equal chance to be selected. ...
Today, we are happy to present to you the first part of this year's Feature Film Selection including 19 high-quality films from all over Europe. In a second part, further titles will be announced in September, all recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2023.
These films have been selected by the European Film Academy Board, consulted by a diverse range of European invited experts.
The Academy Selection represents every year the very best of European cinem...
NBFF Honorees Include Patricia Clarkson, Eugenio Derbez, Todd Haynes, Glenn Howerton, Jack Huston, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, William Shatner and Jesse Williams
TIFF Audience Award Winner “American Fiction” Added to the Line-up
The 2023 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) proudly announces its 2023 Festival Honors. This year’s honorees include:
● Patricia Clarkson (pictured above, photo by Par Joella Ma...
We're thrilled to announce that Geoff Daniels will join us as the next Executive Director of Jackson Wild. Daniels, who has been a leader in the film and television industry for over 20 years, joins Jackson Wild in its 32nd year of programming.
Daniels will lead Jackson Wild's year-round programming and will be responsible for guiding the organization's overall vision and strategy. Shaping the organization's presence globally and locally, Daniels will lea...
The Viennale is Austria’s most important international film event, as well as one of the oldest and best-known festivals in the German-speaking world. Every October, the Viennale takes place in beautiful cinemas in Vienna’s historic center, providing the festival with an international orientation and a distinctive urban flair.
viennale.at
A Film by Pedro Costa (Portugal/Austria 2023, 2 min)
A swan song against the backdrop of a fiery apocalypse? Or is it...
Proving that great television knows no borders, awards for excellence went to a spread of 29 different countries, with outstanding work rewarded this year from United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Brazil, India, France, Japan, Sweden, Italy, Canada, Finland, Spain, Austria, Australia, Belgium, South Africa, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Argentina, Norway, Mexico, Switzerland, Netherlands, Malaysia, Romania, Singapore, Thailand and South Korea.
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees and thank ...
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