SAFE PLACE convinces at the 32nd FilmFestival Cottbus
Juraj Lerotić wins the main prize for the best film in the Feature Film Competition of the 32nd FilmFestival Cottbus. This means that the Croatian-Slovenian production SAFE PLACE is awarded the prize of 25,000 EUR. SAFE PLACE describes the desperate search for the right behavior after a family member has tried to commit suicide. The feature film debut convinces the International Festival Jury and wins the main prize "for the...
SAFE PLACE convinces at the 32nd FilmFestival Cottbus
Juraj Lerotić wins the main prize for the best film in the Feature Film Competition of the 32nd FilmFestival Cottbus. This means that the Croatian-Slovenian production SAFE PLACE is awarded the prize of 25,000 EUR. SAFE PLACE describes the desperate search for the right behavior after a family member has tried to commit suicide. The feature film debut convinces the International Festival Jury and wins the main prize "for the cour...
Historic first wins for Indonesia, Jordan, Armenia, Cambodia, Pakistan
Female filmmakers dominate feature film awards, new performance categories.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy announced the winners at the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) at a Gala Ceremony on Australia’s Gold Coast on Friday evening, with nominees able to attend for the first time since 2019.
APSA celebrates cinematic storytelling that best reflects its cultural o...
LA Independent Women Film Awards celebrates the independence of women as filmmakers, writers, producers, actresses, cinematographers, composers and editors who are creating groundbreaking indie arthouse film projects in a variety of genres. The festival brings together American and international talents to compete in various sections of the bi-monthly and annual competition. It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the 9th edition of the LA Independent Women Film Award...
Runner-ups include The Quiet Girl and She Said
Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Miami Film Festival (MFF) announced that The Whale is the winner of the MIAMI GEMS 2022 Audience Award. The film, directed by Darren Aronofsky, tells the story of a reclusive English teacher (Brendan Fraser), who is living with severe obesity, seeks to reconnect with his teenage daughter (Sadie Sink) for one last chance at redemption. MFF’s annual fall event took place from November 3-10 at MDC&rsquo...
Congratulations to the 2022 CineFAM award winners!
BEST SHORT FILM
Who’s Next? – Directed by Amreen Ghouse, Canada (2019)
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Guardians – Directed by Minerva Navasca, Canada (2021)
BEST LONG SHORT FILM
Out of Order – Directed by Sheronna Osbourne, Canada (2021)
BEST DIRECTOR
Chance Encounter – Directed by Sandra Mathieu, Canada (2021)
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Forest director Lidia Duda and producer Adrianna Redzia
The awards were accorded to the most promising European and U.S. documentary projects presented at the 2nd edition of the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum on Friday night.
Altogether 26 projects (16 from Europe and 10 from U.S.) in the development, production and post-production stage were presented at Ji.hlava IDFF. The jury was composed by the artistic director Berlinale Carlo Chatrian, U.S. film producer...
IT'S A WRAP!
2022 Awards
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After 12 incredible days of films, we've tallied your votes, and we are thrilled to announce the winners of the 58th Chicago International Film Festival Audience Choice Awards, presented by Xfinity!
Audience Choice Award: Best Feature Winners
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Dir. Rian Johnson | US
The Year Between
Dir. Alex Heller | US
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Romanian producer Ada Solomon was accorded the APA World Excellence Award
The 26th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival has been officially launched and its opening evening featured the presentation of the first festival awards. The best Short Joy section film is selected by the online viewers of DAFilms.com, this year going to Blue Bed by Belgian director Lize Cuveele. This year, Ji.hlava presents almost four hundred films and the festival will continue until October 30.
Ple...
Curtains are officially drawn on the 66th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express which marked a return to pre-pandemic highs for in-person audience attendance.
To all of you who joined us in person on the South Bank or in the West End, at our 9 partner cinemas around the UK or from the comfort of your home via BFI Player, a massive thank you for being part of this one.
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The competition category winners of both national and international cinemas in the 39th round of the Tehran International Short Film Festival have been announced, with the Spanish short film "Descartes"
directed by Concha Barquero and Alejandro Alvarado Jodar chosen as the submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.
International Cinema Competition Section The ceremony continued with members of the jury in the international competition category including Edvinas Puksta, Mirona Radu, Mah...
Social Impact & Vison Award Winners Announced
For the second year the Ojai Film Festival will honor films for the Social Impact and Vision Award, sponsored by Panavision. Begun in 2021 the “Diversity and Inclusion for Social Impact and Vision” program explores the breadth of “diversity.” At the same time it examines “intersectionality,” aspects of a person’s identity that may cause conflict yet create an opportunity for un...
2nd Grand Prize! - Undeniably Young: Nora Young and the Six Day Race – Julia Morgan
1st Prize! - Cat Clay Chaos – Emmett Fifield
3rd Prize! - Candied Lips – Hina Effie Ogino
4th Prize! - Into the Realm of the Night – Patrick Muller
5th Prize - Lemon Lime – Mara Ramirez
6th Prize - Closed World and It's Freinds - Nuhae Lee
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9th annual Highland Park Independent Film Festival 2022 award winners
BEST SHORT FILMS
Horror in the Hood Shorts Program: Something in the Garden directed by Marcos Sanchez
SCI-FI on FIG Shorts Program: See You On The Other Side directed by The Sommers Brothers
Arroyo Seco Shorts Program: My Summer Vacation directed by Kelly O'Sullivan
Route 66 Shorts Program: Lead/Follow directed by Colby Day
Los Filmmakers Shorts Program: No Soy Oscar directed by Jon Ayon
AUDIENC...
On Monday 24 October, the very last prize of the 49th edition of Film Fest Gent was handed out. The festival audience voted Mascha Halberstad's charming stop-motion film Oink as the winner of the North Sea Port Audience Award. The animated film was already the big winner at the Golden Calves in Utrecht, taking home awards for Best Film, Best Direction and Best Production Design. Oink is the official Dutch Oscar entry in the Best Animated Feature category.
The internati...
Here are the films, which were liked the most by the audience of the 38th Warsaw International Film Festival, which came to an end yesterday.
A. Fiction features:
1. Dangerous Men / Niebezpieczni dżentelmeni, dir. Maciej Kawalski, Poland
2. Trio, dir. Battumur Dorj, Mongolia
3. Pamfir, dir. Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Ukraine / Francje / Poland / Chile / Luxembourg / Germany
4. Shreds / Strzępy, dir. Beata Dzianowicz, Poland
5. Blaze, dir. Del Kathryn Barton, ...
This year, the National Competition of the 13th Odesa International Film Festival, given the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, was held within the framework of the Warsaw International Film Festival. The programme "Odessa - Warsaw: Ukrainian competition" included 11 feature films and 7 short films.
The winners of the competition were determined by an expert jury, which included a producer and director Dariusz Jablonski (Poland), producer and screenwriter Ilona Łe...
Sundance Institute and Picturehouse announced tonight that the 2022 Sundance Film Festival: London's Audience Favourite award is presented to Brian and Charles directed by Jim Archer. The film is written by David Earl and Chris Hayward, produced by Rupert Majendie and the executive producers are Damian Jones, Lauren Dark and Mary Burke.
Meet Brian -- a lonely, luckless inventor who takes on his most ambitious project yet. Enter Cha...
Last night, the Go Short Awards were handed out during the live award show of the fourteenth edition of Go Short – International Short Film Festival. With these awards, Go Short offers filmmakers an important platform to go to the Oscars, Bafta and European Film Awards. The jury handed out the awards personally in LUX, Nijmegen (Netherlands) to the lucky filmmakers.
Kent Chan won the Dutch Competition with his film Heat Waves and the French Audrey and Maxime Jean-Baptiste won the ...
● We Feed People is Audience Award Winner
● Linoleum and Mama Bears win Best Narrative & Documentary Feature Film
● Karmalink and Sirens score One in A Million Awards
The 2022 Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF), announced this year’s juried film award winners during the annual Awards Bash, presented ...
The VdR–Industry Awards 2022 were announced Wednesday evening. With more than 2100 accredited people from over 80 countries, the Festival has significantly broken the Industry attendance record of last year's hybrid edition (+27%).
The Festival Awards will be presented on Saturday, April 16.
We are absolutely overwhelmed by the historic success of this edition. And considering that in 2019, the last Industry edition before the global pandemic, we counted just over...
Between 5 and 10 April Filmfest Dresden attracted festival visitors numbering 12,900 to the 199 festival screenings and events held in 13 Dresden venues.
34 Filmfest Dresden Award Winners and Award Sponsors / Photo: Fabian Catoni
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MAX3MIN JURY AWARD 2022 TOP TEN
1. Automedic by David Kamau Waronja, Kenya, 2020, 3’
(1st prize, 3000€)
2. Palastik by Asghar Besharati, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2020, 3’
3. Kellys by Javier Fesser, Spain, 2021, 2’
4. S[QUARE)D by Helena Gudkova, Ukraine, 2021, 3’
5. A Body (Un Corpo) by Milena Tipaldo, Italy, 2021, 2’10”
6. Useless Machines by Kialy Tihngang, United Kingdom...
