Creo is pleased to announce the jury of industry-leading experts for the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards 2025, which returns for its third edition at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City June 2-6, 2025.
Established by Creo in partnership with Sony, the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards continue on their mission to elevate original voices from around the world with a fresh perspective on storytelling. Each year the shortlisted filmmakers ar...
A Different Man Wins Best Feature and No Other Land Wins Best Documentary Feature
All We Imagine As Light Wins Best International Feature and His Three Daughters Wins Best Screenplay
Performance Awards go to Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, and Brandon Wilson
Winners of Sixth Annual Focus Features & JetBlue Student Short Film Showcase Announced
The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced today the winners of the 34th edition of The Gothams at a ceremony held at ...
Montreal, Saturday, November 30, 2024 - The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) ends tomorrow, Sunday, December 1st. The winners of this 27th edition were revealed during an awards ceremony which took place this evening at the Cinémathèque québécoise.
GRAND PRIZE FOR INTERNATIONAL FEATURE COMPETITION
Republic by Jiang Jin (Singapore, China)
“Republic captures the...
Fest to Open with “Better Man” and Close with “The Penguin Lessons”
Complete Line-up Includes 35 International Feature Film Oscar Submissions, a Spanish Film Focus, Pedro Almodóvar Spotlight, Talking Pictures, New Voices New Visions, Modern Masters, True Stories and World Cinema Now
The 36th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) announced that the Fes...
At the 55th International Film festival of India, the following films, and casts, were awarded on the Closing session, held on 28th December 2024, afternoon. Democracy ruled, in that no entry won more than one prize.
‘Toxic’, Lithuania, won Golden Peacock, for the Best film, at IFFI 2024. Director, Saulė Bliuvaitė will share the Golden Peacock Trophy, a certificate, and a cash prize of Rs. 40,00,000, with the producer, Giedre Burokaite. The Jury praised the film for its d...
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS TO HONOR TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET WITH THE CHAIRMAN’S AWARD
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Timothée Chalamet is the recipient of the Chairman’s Award for his performance in Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknown from James Mangold. The Film Awards will take place on January 3, 2025, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running J...
The Grand Prix winners of 2024 (Silent City Driver, dir. Sengedorj Janchivdorj). Photo: Erlend Štaub.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival wrapped up the numbers of 2024
The 28th edition of Black Nights broke the all-time audience record, as the number of admissions in 2024 were 93 044. The previous record was set in 2019, when the festival gathered around 90 000 visits at the screenings. The festival had also a record number of sold-out screenings (118). ...
The panel discussion titled "Hot or Not: Cracking the Code of Sales and Distribution Today" offers an exciting and necessary exploration of the post-COVID cinema market.
Experienced industry professionals Yohann Comte (Charades), Céline Dornier (Logical Pictures), Clément Chautant (Arizona Distribution) and Stephan Henz (DCM Distribution), will answer to the questions like "How is the market of the post-covid era?" "In terms of titles and genres, what is...
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Let' s hear this fantastic story from the words of its very own founder our friend Mario Dorminsky pictured here with Bruno Chatelin and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira
"The festival was born in 1980 at a table of a small coffee shop in the center of Oporto, heritage world town by UNESCO, in a conversation between the three founders, film critics Mário Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and the painter José Manuel Pereira. It immediately presented in the first edition (1981)...
Marge Liiske presents the awards ceremony in Tallinn during PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024.
Marge serves as the Head of Industry at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
After an exciting week of networking, presentations, panel discussions, and meetings, Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event celebrated the most outstanding projects with the award ceremony. 17 awards were handed out to film projects at various stages of scriptwriting, develop...
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Swiss-Peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke’s quiet family drama is set in 1992, during the economic collapse in Peru, a national curfew and the constant attacks of the far-left terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path).
An opening archival television news report features Peru’s minister of the economy announcing that in the next 24 hours, the price of milk will jump from 120,000 Peruvian intis to 330,000, the cost of sugar, now 150,000 intis, will...
Angelina Jolie came to Torino and presented on November 24 her new film titled "Without blood".
The war drama film written, co-produced and directed by Angelina Jolie is based on Alessandro Baricco's book, who presented together with Jolie the adaptation of his novel to the press and later to the audience.
While no questions where related to her private life and the battle about the children between her and Brad Pitt, she spoke to journal...
French actress Emanuelle Béart received the Stella della Mole award for her entire carrier at the TFF.
Seductive, innocent, charming, a vamp, desired by all men. These have been the adjectifs for the French actress best known from films like "Une femme française".
A new facette of her I discovered at the TFF. Courageous!
And a hidous thruth. Incest!
Emanuelle Béart is premiering in Torino her docum...
By Kate Elfatah
The 45th Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) has been a resounding success, attracting huge audiences and presenting the spectrum of cinematic talents. I recently sat down with CIFF Program Director Essam Zakaria to discuss the festival’s triumphant re-entry, its commitment to international cinema, and its plans for the future.
A Resurgence of Cinema Passion
Zakaria was o...
The proud winners of the Audience Award (Pyre, dir. Vinod Kapri).
Highlights:
Silent City Driver wins the Grand Prix for the Best Film of Official Selection Competition, also scooped the Best Production Design Award;
The Best First Feature Film Award goes to No Dogs Allowed;
Southern Chronicles gets the Best Baltic Film award;
In the Rebels with a Cause competition programme, the award for the Best Film go...
Join your festival guide Bruno Chatelin for a visit to the Old Town in Tallinn from the Viru Square, one of the favorite spots of course: so much beauty and power in these old stones.
Three PM tallinn gets dark and snowy cold!
Noblessner seafront quarter Noblessner is located next to the Seaplane Harbour, a walking distance from the Kalamaja district and the Old Town. Once the major submarine shipyard of Imperial Russia, it has now turned into a seafront quarter that is open to the sea....
Bruno Chatelin and Tiina Lokk
Interview courtesy PÖFF
What are the main themes in PÖFF’s Official Selection Competition programme this year? What genres and viewpoints are dominant?
The diverse selection of films sent to us is what determines the directions. As always, there are many genres in our competition programme and the same goes for other programmes. At the same time we never accept a film based only on the genre – for us the genre is one way to e...
The second lifetime achievement award of this year’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) will be given to one of Georgia’s most renowned directors, Lana Gogoberidze. The 96-year-old legend will be presenting two of her films at this year's festival.
Photo: Lana Gogoberidze
Recently celebrating her 96th birthday, Gogoberidze is known for her films that predominantly depict strong women who fight against fate and dare to defy societal nor...
Bruno Chatelin met for a quick interview with David Jovanovic after his successfull screening in PÖFF competition (first feature) and an incredingly long and passionate Q&A!
Dule (pictured above at Tallinn Nordic Forum Hotel with the director) is a happy boy who spends his childhood together with his hero father and mother, too small to understand that his home will soon be taken by the mine next to the village. If death caused by pollution does not take the boy soon...
Yesterday evening, the winners of the TV Beats Co-Financing Market—now in its fourth year—were announced.
The international jury selected Finnish drama series project The Women I Think about at Night (Producer: Liisa Karpo, production company: napafilms) as the most promising project. The winner was handed out the Series Co-Production Development Award, worth 50,000 euros, intended to foster creative collaborations in series co-production and empower independent producers. The awa...
1. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Jury members Maryna Er Gorbach (Ukraine), Oana Iancu (Romania), Anna Kazejak (Poland), Vinko Brešan (Croatia), Alberto Triano (Spain) gave the following awards:
1.1. Warsaw Grand Prix went to TRAFFIC / REOSTAT by Teodora Ana Mihai, Romania / Belgium / Netherlands
The Warsaw Grand Prix includes 100,000 zlotys cash award, funded by the Mayor of Warsaw.
1.2. Award for the Best Director went to CHAOS AND SILENCE /...
The formal re-entry session of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (ASMP) was held under the dome of the Institut de France on 18 November 2024, chaired by Mr Bruno Cotte, Member of the Council of the National Order of the Legion of Honour and in the presence of Mr Bernard Stirn, Permanent Secretary.
During this ceremony, the academician Jean-Robert Pitte, vice president, emeritus professor of geography, co-chair, with the Minister of Culture of Taiwan Mr Li Yuan, of th...
Academy Award-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg will chair the jury of the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival, which takes place from November 29th to December 7th, 2024.
The jury will award the Étoile d'Or to one of the 14 first and second features in the festival’s international competition, which is dedicated to the discovery of filmmakers from around the world.
“It’s a great privilege and an honor to have received the n...
