The 28th annual New York Jewish Film Festival was presented by the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center from January 9 – 22. Among the more than 70 Jewish film festivals held in North America each year, the NYJFF is the largest and among the oldest. NYJFF is perfectly situated in a city where as of 2016 more than 1.1 million Jews live, amounting to 12 % of the total population. Among the NYJFF innovations provided this year are a new annual p...

French star Jeanne Moreau no more Jeanne Moreau has died at her Paris home today, aged 89. She leaves behind a legacy of memorable films, including classic vehicles of Louis Malle and François Truffaut. Born to a French restaurateur father (Anatole Moreau) and English cabaret dancer mother (Katherine Buckley) on 23 January 1928 at Paris, she studied at Collège Edgar-Quinet and Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique. In 1948, she became an actress with Comédie Fran&...

MFF 17, by Jio-MAMI, Festival Diary, part I  MFF 17, by Jio-MAMI, Festival Diary, II                                       Kiran Rao and Anupama Chandra Come 28 October, and we learnt that the inauguration of Jio MAMI 17th Mumbai Film Festival would be held on 29th October in open-air at Mumbai’s most famous landmark, the Gateway of India. It was also learnt that the inaugural fi...

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is delighted to reveal details of 2014’s Juries: the Michael Powell Award Competition Jury; the International Competition Jury; the Documentary Competition Jury; the Short Film Competition Jury and the Student Critics Jury.   The Jury for the Michael Powell Award Competition for Best British Feature Film: Amos Gitai (Director; Chair) Nina Hoss (Actor) Michael Smiley (Actor/Writer/Comedian) The Michael Powell Award was inaugurated at...

by Kathryn Hall Trainee architect turned soldier turned filmmaker Amos Gitai, known for his often didactic documentary and fictionalised explorations into the relationship between war, religion, the citizen, and the state in modern day Israel, is currently harbouring sixteen ‘Traces’ of his films underground in Palais de Tokyo.   The ‘chantier,’ as this space is called, is pretty fitting as a location for Gitai’s installation. Never sentimentalisin...