Last Sunday morning I ended my tour of the San Francisco International Animation Film Festival with a retrospective of animator Gene Deitch's work for children. Deitch and his wife Zdenka who reside...

As part of the parallel Amsterdam India Festival, IDFA is presenting a program it calls East Side Stories, featuring 17 contemporary documentaries from India. This unique look at the emerging...

A new addition to this year's IDFA is the introduction of Doclab, a new program section that explores the relationship between new media and the documentary form. The main theme for this year is data...

Golden Star / Grand PrizeWILD FIELD by Mikhail Kalatozishvili - Russia Jury PrizeTHE SHAFT by Zhang Chi - ChinaBest ActressMELISSA LEO for FROZEN RIVER by Courtney Hunt - USABest ActorEERO AHO for...

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS’ AWARD 2008 – Prix FIPRESCIgoes to Abdellatif Kechiche for LA GRAINE ET LE MULET (The Secret of the Grain / Couscous)As FIPRESCI’s Hassouna Mansouri, Director of the...

MAMMA MIA! – THE MOVIE has become the fastest selling DVD of all time in the UK after Day 1 sales reached 1.669 million units, following its launch on 24th November. (source: OCC).The previous Day 1...

49th INTERNATIONAL THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL took place NOVEMBER 14 - 23, 2008The jury of the International Competition Section of the 49th Thessaloniki Film Festival comprised of: Michael Ondaatje,...

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov is due in town today to attend the screening of In The Holy Fire Of Revolution, Masha Novikova’s film about the daily harassment of opposition political...

Even before the curtains rose on the red carpet crowd-pleaser Last Chance Harvey, Closing Night audiences got a thrill via the announcement of this year's festival award winners: the Fox 31 Emerging...

9e International Festival of Film Against Exclusion and for ToléranceDecember 5 – 13 2008UNESCO: 7 place de Fontenoy, Paris 7For its 9th edition, FIFET is presenting feature films on slavery in...