by Marla LewinThis January marks the 21st anniversary year of the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF). Today Festival Director Darryl Macdonald announced the program and said, "Our film line-up this year is a strong reflection of the current zeitgeist in world cinema. Sixty-seven first-time feature film directors will screen this year, representing a surge of new filmmaking talent on the world stage. In addition, we'll showcase a vintage crop of new works by established master...

Eighteen films from different Latin American countries will compete in the Horizontes Selection at the San Sebastian Film Festival, to take place from 20-29th September. This showcase of movies made throughout the year in Latin America consists of films not released in Spain, some of which have won awards at international festivals, such as El asaltante, Baixio Das Bestas, A casa de Alice, Párpados azules and La sangre iluminada. Eleven of these titles come from Films in Progress.Films include...

El Ojo CojoFestival Internacional de cine por integración culturalShorts: Antonio Hen,: Fernando Campos Bayo, Lucía Casani. Best fiction feature film: Dirt by Nancy SavocaBest Documentary: La cárcel y la calle from Liliana SulzbachBest Short : Botas de oro by José Luis Barengo and Ramón Tarres Jury membersFiction: Ernesto Chao: (Habana Blues director), Eduardo Moyano, Sergio Hernández.Documentaries: Javier Rioyo, Catalina Murillo, Ariel Jerez: ...