The 6th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF) presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America returns on November 8-19, 2023 as a hybrid festival screening the best new and critically-acclaimed Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian films in-person in NYC November 8-12 and virtually November 10-19. This year, the festival will feature 13 screenings — including eight narrative features, three documentaries, and one TV series — with tw...
The first festival to bring young European cinema to Minecraft®.3
Daniela Elstner, Executive Director of Unifrance, unveiled the selection for the 1st edition of MyMetaStories. MyMetaStories is the very first festival to bring cinema to the Metaverse, at the crossroads of cultural and creative industries of film and video games.1st edition, 20 films - 7 features and 13 shorts - have been selected. These films have been screened at major international festivals and come from all ov...
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 national competition with seven feature-length films in the Hanseatic city. This year’s Douglas Sirk Award winner is Sandra Hüller, who will be awarded on 30 September before the Germa...
What happens to a film when an actor's face is changed?
In collaboration with SF Studios, Gothenburg Film Studios and The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, Göteborg Film Festival is producing an AI-generated version of Persona, featuring Alma Pöysti in Liv Ullmann's role as Elisabet Vogler. This cinematic experiment will be screened exclusively once at the Göteborg Film Festival 2024 in the presence of Liv Ullmann and Alma Pöysti. The screening will be followe...
Baz Lurhmann, Photo credit Hugh Stewart
The Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF), today announced internationally renowned writer, director and producer Baz Luhrmann (Elvis, Moulin Rouge!) will preside over the Festival’s Red Sea: Features Competition Jury this year. The third edition of the festival will take place from 30 November – 9 December in Jeddah, nestled on the eastern shore of the Red Sea.
The legendary Academy Award® nominated au...
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THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER – In Theaters October 6 2023
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Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences around the world. Now, on Friday, October 13, a new chapter begins. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green, who shattered the status quo wit...
US film box office revenues in China are declining and only two films from the US were among the top ten hits in China last year. The lion's share of the Chinese audiences seems to have shifted their preference to domestic films. Before the pandemic, it was expected that in any given year at least five US films would be among the top 10 movies in China. The available data from 2014-2018 confirms this. However, in 2019 only two US films achieved the same success. The same held true in 2021 ...
For the first time the Ojai Film Festival chose an animated film to receive the Bill Paxton Award. This distinction spotlights one film in the Gold Coast series, which closes out the in-person Festival on Monday, November 6. All the films in the series come from filmmakers in Southern California, including Bill Paxton Award honoree “Driftwood” by Christopher Hills Eaton of Ojai.
Eaton’s mother, Merilee Eaton, a local mosaic artist, enc...
Lauren Haber Head of Documentary Amplify Pictures Credit - Lauren Volo
Emmy Award-winning studio Amplify Pictures has appointed veteran documentary producer Lauren Haber as Head of Documentary, it was announced today by Rachel Eggebeen, Amplify Pictures’ Chief Content Officer. Haber will be based in New York and will report to Eggebeen, who is based in Amsterdam and oversees Amplify Pictures’ scripted and unscripted content slate, which includes ...
Cast: Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
Screenplay by: Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt
Based on the Novel by: Suzanne Collins
Produced by: Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Francis Lawrence
Executive Producers: Suzanne Collins, Mika Saito, Jim Miller, Tim Palen
Synopsis: Experience the story of THE HUNGER GA...
On Sunday night CTFF 2023 closed out the in-person portion of the festival with three more amazing films: DỌLÁPỌ̀ IS FINE by Ethosheia Hylton; Behind the Blue by Kenderson Noray; Yubism:Life and Art of Yubi Kirindongo by Corry van Heijningen, and our 2023 Award Ceremony. Congratulations to all of the winners and to all of the filmmakers who have taken part in this year's festival – We are grateful.
Best Feature Documentary
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Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon will be the guest of honor of the 19th Lucca Film Festival, where she will be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award on September 28. She will also participate in a masterclass, and a Puccini music concert on the 29th.
Prior to the concert, Ms. Sarandon will receive the Lucca Medal of Merit and the key of neighboring Correglia Antelminelli in honor of her Tuscan heritage.
LUCCA FILM FESTIVAL 2023
September 23 / October 1
19th edit...
SWEET DREAMS
TIFF 2023
With director: Ena Sendijarevic
By Emmanuel Itier
Meet Ena Sendijaveric who directed one of the best surprise movie of TIFF 2023: “Sweet Dreams”. This mesmerizing movie follows the journey of the illegitimate son of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who died and living him his Indian ocean island estate. The child was born from the owner’s Indonesian housemaid. This is a visually enchanting movie with an intense dra...
THE RYE HORN
TIFF 2023
Director: Jaione Camborda and Actress: Janet Novas.
By Emmanuel Itier
Director Jaione Camorda, who did the charismatic ‘Arima’ in 2019, is back with a beautiful new film: ‘O Corno’ aka ‘The Rye Horn’. It follows the journey of Maria who earns a living fishing. Suddenly her life will swith into a fight for her survival. This is an intense and dramatic, so cinematographically compelling. It will moves you inside ...
2023 Best Canadian Feature Film Award, Amplify Voices Awards, Short Cuts Awards, Changemaker Award, People’s Choice Awards, along with FIPRESCI and NETPAC film jury awards, close the Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival® ― which concluded last evening with the Closing Night screening of Thom Zimny’s Sly at the Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre and Roy Thomson Hall ― has announced its award recipients for the 48th edition...
“Long Beach Island,” by fulltime attorney Edson McClellan who wrote his first screenplay four years ago at age 49, won the Eighth Annual Ojai Film Festival Screenplay Competition. The award comes with a Live Table Read performed by professional actors. Festival organizers welcome the return of the Live component of the Table Read, presented via recording the last three years due to the pandemic. The public may attend the reading on Sunday, November 5 at 1 pm ...
100 YARDS
TIFF 2023
With Actor/Producer, Jacky Heung and director: Junfeng Xu
By Emmanuel Itier
‘100 Yards’ the new movie from legendary director, Junfeng Xu (‘The Grandmaster’, ‘The Hidden Sword’), follows two bitter rivals, one of them played by the iconic kung fu fighter/actor Jacky Heung, for stewardship of a Wushu (a form of Kung Fu) academy. Presented at TIFF, this is a impactful, adrenaline driven film that will keep alive and kick...
THE CONVERT
TIFF 2023
Director: Lee Tamahori.
By Emmanuel Itier
Legendary director, Lee Tamahori, who is behind such iconic movies as ‘Once we were Warriors’, ‘The Edge’ and the James Bond classic, ‘Die Another Day’ is back again focusing on a passion of his: the Maori tribes. This time, master Tamahori is painting the story of a preacher, played by the splendid, mesmerizing Guy Pearce, who arrives at a British settlement in New Zealand in the 18...
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As we tie a ribbon on the Festival emotions grow stronger! After being blown away by the energy of the cast of LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE (SOCIETY OF THE SNOW), many stars arrive at the Palazzo del Cinema for the awards ceremony. As the night falls on #Venezia80, this edition's winners dazzle in the Sala Grande. Among all, Yorgos Lanthimos' star shines the brighest: his POOR THINGS fills the Red Carpet with golden light on the magical last day of the Mostra
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Centerpiece Screenings include Films “May December,” “NYAD,” and “Rustin”;
Special Events include Book Talks with Rainn Wilson and Bobby Berk;
Culinary Event with Susan Feniger; and Anniversary Screening of “In the Name of the Father” with director Jim Sheridan
The 24th annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) announced Tuesday that it will screen 91 films from 19 countries - including 14 World Premieres, 14 U.S. Premieres, 6 North Am...
The Jury of the 49th edition of the Deauville American film festival, presided over by Guillaume Canet, with Alexandre Aja, Anne Berest, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Léa Mysius, Marina Hands of the Comédie-Française, Rebecca Marder, Stéphane Bak and Maxim Nucci (Yodelice) awarded :
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VENEZIA 80
The VENEZIA 80 Jury, chaired by Damien Chazelle and comprised of Saleh Bakri, Jane Campion, Mia Hansen-Løve, Gabriele Mainetti, Martin McDonagh, Santiago Mitre, Laura Poitras and Shu Qi having viewed all 23 films in competition, has decided as follows:
GOLDEN LION for Best Film to:
POOR THINGS
by Yorgos Lanthimos (UK)
SILVER LION – GRAND JURY PRIZE to:
Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai (Evil Does Not Exist)
by Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Jap...
