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From Oscar Nominated Pot Au Feu film... to learning classic French cooking techniques with Chef Gabriel Kreuther of eponymous Michelin-starred restaurant in NYC, France Day explores the different levels of French Cuisine and film. Here are our top picks for the day! What To See & Do: France Day - Friday, October 27th ...
The 23rd edition of Just Film, the youth and children's film festival of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announced this year's film programme, showcasing 11 premieres. In a celebration of cinematic diversity, a total of 52 exceptional films will be showcased across various captivating programmes, offering a rich tapestry of storytelling and entertainment for every attendee. 11 films will be competing in the international children...
AIFF Festival Passes on Sale! Mark your calendars for November 2-5 and plan to join us at the Capitol Theatre, Arlington, MA for the best in Indie Films. We open this year’s festival with films that address key elements in maintaining a democracy: a free press, and the rule of law relating to the rise of insurgency. Explore the fascinating nature of the sperm whale, learn about the process that ensued to return Picasso’s Guernica to Spain, embark on a journey...
We are thrilled to announce the call for applications for the 9th Bridging the Dragon Lab in 2023 is now open until Friday, 27th October 2023. Over the past eight years, this immersive residential workshop has been proven to be a breeding ground for valuable content and an inspiring think-tank providing bonding opportunities and an in-depth learning experience for film professionals who have a concrete interest in China. While maintaining the core focus on China and Europe, ...
The program for the 46th Denver Film Festival is now live and ready for your exploration. With a captivating lineup of films, engaging panels, and unforgettable cinematic experiences, this year's festival will be a celebration of storytelling like no other. Dive in below to discover the incredible array of films and events at DFF46! Critically acclaimed AMERICAN FICTION, I.S.S, MAXINE'S BABY: THE TYLER PERRY STORY, THE BOY AND THE HERON, LA CHIM...
R.J. Daniel Hanna’s cycling drama Hard Miles to be the Opening Night film selection and NIFF closes with Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial accompanied live by the Naples Philharmonic Haroula Rose’s All Happy Families, Shaun Dozier’s The Problem of the Hero and Vivian Kerr’s Scrap compete for the Narrative Feature Juried Prize Miranda Yousef’s ...
With the beginning of October, the call for films for the 64th Krakow Film Festival has started. The organisers and selectors are eagerly awaiting short films and documentaries from all over the world. From among several thousand entries, approximately 200 of the most interesting titles are going to make it to be shown in Kraków's cinemas to festival audience in late May and early June – and online throughout Poland. To us, beginning the process of accep...
45th EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL DES 3 CONTINENTS – KEY EVENTS The Festival des 3 Continents is back in 2023 for its 45th edition from November 24 to December 3, with screenings in Nantes and in cinemas across the Loire-Atlantique region. This international event will take place over 10 days, bookended by two weekends. A wide range of dramas and documentaries from Africa, Latin America, and Asia will be presented in a programme of some 90 feature films, m...
GEMS will feature 26 films from 14 countries, opening with the Mexican drama “Radical.” Four Centerpiece Screenings – the survivalist thriller “Society of the Snow,” the animated feature “The Boy and the Heron,” provocative comedy “American Fiction” and psychological thriller drama “Saltburn”– leading to the closing night feature, “The Holdovers,” a comedy-drama by Alexander Payne starri...
with Damien Chazelle at the Variety party The magazine Variety (www.variety,com) was omnipresent at the 80th Venice Film Festival edition 29.08-09.10 hosting or co-hosting four events. I attended three of them, invited by Eric Legendre, Managing Director, International, Variety and his wife, the sophisticated fashion designer Muzy Burton (www.muzyB.com). from the left: Claudio Staderini,Cynthia Littleton, Ramin Setoodeh, Damien Chazelle, Roberto Barbera and Eric Legendre T...
Emmy Award-winning Amplify Pictures has announced a production and financing partnership with multiple Tony Award-winning Broadway producing team, Eric Kuhn and Tre’ Scott’s recently formed Folk Productions. The announcement came today from Amplify’s Joe Lewis, CEO of the independent content studio behind HBO’s Emmy-winning series “100 Foot Wave.” The new collaboration brings together both organizations’ extensive experience in producing and financing ...
EPIC BILL Nature Track film festival 2023 With director: Quinnolyn Benson-Yates. Epic Bill is truly about re-inventing yourself and finding your true self. Meet Bill Bradley, a self-made millionaire who collapsed into bankruptcy and how he found himself, again, by entering the world of extreme endurance racing. Maverick director Quinnolyn Benson-Yates truly captured the spirit of what is defining “Epic Bill” through amazing sequences in the wilderness and hones...
As the 21st anniversary since Guantanamo Bay Prison took in it’s first prisoners, Cinema Libre Studio has completed production on a controversial narrative feature that shows, for the first time, the treatment Guantanamo’s Arab prisoners received upon detainment FOLLOWING THE EVENTS OF 9/11. Told from a Muslim Arab’s point-of-view, Sammy Sheik ("American Snipper", "NCIS: Los Angeles,”) stars as Gamel Sadek with Eric Pierpoint ("Liar, Liar"...
10th YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ANIMAZE – MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL WRAPS AND ANNOUNCES WINNING FILMS OF 2023 The Festival Paid Tribute to Canadian Animation Industry Tycoon Michael Hirsh who Received the Lifetime Achievement Award Animaze – The Montreal International Animation Festival celebrated its 10th year with many international attendees and animation films – shorts from filmmakers around the globe. “What we saw this year at Animaze was incredib...
Contact: Rick Prickett, Competition Director 858-779-9544 BestShorts.net Info@BestShorts.net The Best Shorts Competition Announces Latest Winners! La Jolla, CA, October 2023 – The Best Shorts Competition is proud to announce the latest winners. The Best Shorts Competition puts filmmakers first and provides a direct opportunity for recognition and publicity for high quality productions. It ...
22nd Hafez awards, Picture World Cinema and Television Ceremony were given to the best of cinema and television of Iran. The Abbas Kiarostami Memorial Medal was awarded to “Imagination”, directed by Ali Behrad. The 22nd Cinema and Television Ceremony of Picture World Magazine (Hafez Awards) was held after a year break, under the direction of Omid Moalem and production of Azar Azar Memarian. The awards were given to the best of cinema and television of Iran. This year, the ...
The Key West Film Festival announced today the recipients of its 8th annual Golden Key for Excellence in Costume Design, and 2nd annual Golden Key Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. The recipients this year are Academy Award winning Costume Designer Jacqueline Durran and Academy Award winning Executive, Director and Producer, Sheila Nevins. Jacqueline Durran’s most recent work can be seen in the record-breaking, billion-dollar box office smash Barbie. As ...
Drumroll for the five nominees in the running for the European University Film Award (EUFA)! The European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg announce this year’s nominated films. Introduced in 2016, the award is presented by university students from across Europe. Based on the European Film Awards Feature and Documentary Film Selections 2023, these are the five nominations: ANATOMY OF A FALL (ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE) France DIRECTED BY Justine Triet WRITT...
Congratulations to our 2023 shortlist! Following a record number of submissions for this year's Big Screen Awards we are delighted to announce the 2023 shortlist! The exceptionally high calibre of entries showcases the very best of the UK cinema industry across marketing, distribution, publicity and exhibition teams/companies. See the list of shortlisted entries by clicking the button below. THE NOMINEES Join us at the awards ceremony on 23 Novemb...
ANDREA SLAVIČEK (Croatia) © Nina Duredevic – ZHAO HAO (China) © Yeo Seung Jin - ASMAE EL MOUDIR (Morocco) © Ammar Abd Rabbo - GESSICA GÉNÉUS (Haiti) © Jean Marie Gigon - DIANA CAM VAN NGUYEN (Czech Republic / Vietnam) © David Tichacek - MELTSE VAN COILLIE (Belgium) © Harm Dens ...
The jury has been appointed for the Ermanno Olmi Award, international film award promoting short films by young directors. Submission deadline: October 15th, 2023 ©Gianni Berengo Gardin/Contrasto Luigi Musini (film producer), Lorenzo Rossi (researcher and editor of Cineforum magazine), Omar Pesenti (director and screenwriter), Giada Mazzoleni (film producer and teacher) and Giorgia Goi (producer and distributor) have been appointed as the jury of the fourth edition of t...
WELCOME JAMES WOOLLEY, NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL! As the Miami Film Festival (MFF) celebrated its 40th anniversary earlier this year and prepares for the upcoming 10th anniversary of its GEMS festival, taking place Nov. 2-5, 2023, we are excited to welcome the Festival's new Executive Director, James Woolley. “I am excited about this opportunity to lead the acclaimed Miami Film Festival, an institution I highly admire,” Woo...
Enzo Ashford Zelocchi was born in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Raised predominantly between the United States and Italy with family also located in England and France, he is of Italian, British, Spanish, French, Asian, and Jewish descent. Enzo pursued higher education in Italy, graduating with a degree in accounting from a private international school in Rome before relocating to Milan to study marketing, media strategy, and public relations at the private university IULM, alongside the Stan...
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The 6th annual French Riviera Film Festival (FRFF) will recognize and celebrate short-form content created for film, television, Web and all digital platforms. In the glamorous South of France setting, FRFF invites filmmakers from around the globe to participate in the two-day festival that includes screenings, awards ceremony, and closing gala party. FRFF will place the spotlight on the best short-form filmed content during the time period of the annual Festival de Cannes. A prestigious jury panel will select Best Drama Short, Best Comedy Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animation Short, Best Experimental Short, Best Lifestyle Short, Best Fashion Short, Best Music Video, Best Female Filmmaker Award, Best Director Award, Best Actor Award, Best Actress Award, Best Activism Short, Best Micro Short Award, Industry Excellence Award, and Lifetime Achievement Awards . Attendees and participants will include filmmakers, industry executives, celebrities, media, and influencers. SUBMIT I Website I Profile on filmfestivals.com I Email contact
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Maya by Julia Verdin
USA 2023 1hour 44 minutes written and directed by Jukia Verdin
Teenage Maya is raised in a household stricken by her father’s abandonment.
Maya makes the wrong encounter on social media and meets Ray a handsome stranger she falls for: he encourages Maya to run away from home...she ends up being set up for appointments with Ray’s “clients” until Police finds her. Can Maya's mother help her get back on her feet, or will Maya be forever lost to the dark world she has fallen prey to?
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Through the real-life experience of several transgender youth and expert interviews, this docudrama provides an uncensored look into the forces behind this movement and reveals untold stories you have never heard.
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Some who took vaccine with the noblest of intentions experienced unexpected debilitating aftereffects. Instead of compassion, they were met with skepticism; instead of being helped they were shunned; instead of being heard, they were silenced. Join us as we bring their stories out of the shadows so they can be heard and seen and no longer alone.
And yet nobody's coming to the rescue of truth?
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France 93 minutes
August 2014. ISIS invades the city of Sinjar, home to a religious minority called the Yazidis, in the north west of Irak.
Sibel, a 13-year-old girl, witnesses the slaughter of her entire family.
Alongside thousands of other women and young girls from her community, she is then kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery.
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5 minutes 40 - USA July 2022
An overly confident cop’s first day on the job gets interesting as he navigates unfamiliar territories and people.
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A brother-sister assassin duo become part of a scheme much bigger than them, when a culture vulture-ing client calls an audible.
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2023 USA 96 minutes
Rear View Cataclysm is the story of two brothers and an ex-girlfriend who try to recapture the love and passion and of their past. Edison is trapped in a toxic marriage and invites down-on-his-luck brother, Blake (Jason Liebrecht), to a popular local music festival. Broke and depressed, Blake agrees, not realizing that Edison has also invited Mazie (Caroline Ducey), his ex-girlfriend. No one can predict the course of desire, reconciliation and regret that unfolds. Set against the barren landscapes of rural Texas and featuring the hypnotic sounds of Grouper and Govinda along with Punk Rock Bands Zounds and The Jesus Lizard, Rear View Cataclysm is a feast for the heart and senses.
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December 2022, USA 2 hours 4 minutes
Gotham tells the true story of what happened in New York City during the twenty years from 1993 to 2013. How did a city with over 2200 murders, 93,000 violent robberies and 147,000 car thefts in 1990 become the capitol of the world a mere handful of years later? This feature documentary explores what happened during these decades, told by the people who did the hard work, some at great personal and professional cost.
From Fear City to the City of Dreams. Hear about the greatest American turnaround story from the people who made it happen.
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ABSOLUTION by Lauren Spohn
Short film by Lauren Spohn (UK: 6 minutes 24 seconds 2022)
Labelled BEST FOR FESTS by curator Bruno Chatelin former head of Fox and Sony in France, filmfestivals.com founder and editor
"I am in a dark forest and something is chasing after me, some sort of creature that reeks fire or something: one part of me wants to run but I cannot move my legs? I am totally paralysed..."
"One last thing"he said : "it's not your fault !"
A man sees his psychiatrist for help with a difficult hidden family secret. The conversation takes a sinister turn as the psychiatrist pushes deeper into the man’s past. All is not what it seems:
Can he take the tension, will you?
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Grâce à une production photo inédite, découvrez les détails de ces bolides qui ont fait la renommée de films et de séries devenus cultes de Magnum à la saga Fast & Furious par Franck Galièle ...
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L'Écran Pop, le 1er Cinéma Karaoké en France, présente La Reine des Neiges, le samedi 14 octobre 2023 au Grand Rex à Paris. A l'occasion des 10 ans de la Reine des Neiges, L'Écran Pop fera chanter petits et grands dans la plus grande salle de cinéma d'Europe, notamment sur le phénomène mondial 'Libérée, Délivrée". Après le Grand Rex à Paris, L'&Eacu...
FESTIVAL PARISCIENCE DECOUVREZ LA PROGRAMMATION ! La billetterie du festival Pariscience vient d'ouvrir ses portes ! Le festival donne rendez-vous à ses spectateurs du 26 au 30 octobre au Muséum national d'...
Du 27 septembre au 1er octobre 2023, le 7ème art donnait rendez-vous au village thermal ! Le producteur et agent prestigieux du cinéma, Dominique Besnehard a présenté sa sélection de pépites aux curistes et vacanciers de sa ville de cœur. Depuis plus de 30 ans, c’est une très belle histoire qui s’écrit avec le célèbre producteur et Brides-les-Bains. Cette année encore, la station a mis le 7ème art à l’honneur en projetant 30 projections, avan...
L'acteur américain Dwayne Johnson, dit The Rock entre au musée Grévin le lundi 16 octobre 2023 © Grévin Paris Élu par les internautes lors de la 1ère édition des Grévin Awards, c’est largement en tête des votes que Dwayne Johnson a remporté la victoire. Ancien grand sportif (football américain et catch), c’est en 2001 que Dwayne Johnson débute sa carrière au cinéma d...
300 EN LIBRAIRIE LE 20 OCTOBRE aux éditions Huginn & Muminn Réalisé au scénario et au dessin par Frank Miller et sublimé par les couleurs de Lynn Varley, 300 est une œuvre d’exception dans la carrière de cet auteur : le pinacle de son travail chez les éditeurs indépendants. Dans ce récit, il offre une vision à la fois spectaculaire et personnelle de l’antique bataille des Thermopyles. Un découpage à la discipline de fer et un rendu...
Du 1er au 8 décembre 2023, les jeunes cinéastes du monde entier, les professionnels du cinéma et le grand public se retrouvent à l’occasion de la 46e édition du Poitiers Film Festival. Le Poitiers Film Festival c’est, depuis 46 ans, le festival des films d’écoles de cinéma. Celui qui déniche pour le grand public et les professionnels la nouvelle génération de cinéastes au moment o&..
L'argile des mots magiques. Un film poétique d'Anna Polibina-Polansky, sur la vie d'Anna Akhmatova. youtube.com/watch?v=fzvCCzxuSOo La stylization sous Goumilyov et Modigliani, les companions artistiques et de la vie, d'Akhmatova. Le texte lyrique en francais - d'Annette Polibina-Polansky (Moscou - Taormina - Basel - Strasbourg). datteri@yandex.ru "Ce sont mes reves lyriques des poesies d'Akhmatova. Je reaconte de ses chemins mundiales... Je suis ...
Cher(e)s ami(e)s, cher(e)s cinéphiles, Le festival des Ecrans de Chine s'est terminé dimanche soir en décorant de son Ecrans d’Or “AYI”, film absolument remarquable de Marine Ottogalli et Aël Théry. Ce documentaire d’observation nous raconte avec brio le quotidien d’une cuisinière de rue, Ayi, dans les vieux quartiers de Shanghai. Il nous fait voir notamment comment elle réussit...
ANDREA SLAVIČEK (Croatie) © Nina Duredevic – ZHAO HAO (Chine) © Yeo Seung Jin - ASMAE EL MOUDIR (Maroc) © Ammar Abd Rabbo - GESSICA GÉNÉUS (Haïti) © Jean Marie Gigon - DIANA CAM VAN NGUYEN (République Tchèque / Vietnam) © David Tichacek - MELTSE VAN COILLIE (Belgique) © Harm Dens La 46e Résidence du Festival de Cannes ...
Jean-Pierre Thorn, Prix Charles Brabant Ce prix consacre un parcours singulier, un talent et une exigence créatrice ayant su imposer durablement leur empreinte sur la création documentaire. Jean-Pierre Thorn débute en 1965 à Aix en Provence par des mises en scène théâtrales. Il tourne son premier long-métrage en 1968 à l’usine occupée de Renault Flins. En 1970, il abandonne le cinéma pour...
Nous sommes très fiers des bonnes relations et des partenariats signé avec les plus grands festivals et marchés : Venice Production Bridge, FestForums Santa Barbara, AFM, Animaze, Tallinn Black Night International Film Festival, Houston WorldFest, Fantasporto, et Cannes Market bien entendu et beaucoup d'autres. Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir grace à ces parteneriats pouvoir apporter news et dailies à ...
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