In honor of Dame Donna Langley, Kering and the Festival de Cannes were pleased to welcome the members of the Festival jury as well as Julianne Moore, Justine Triet, Uma Thurman, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Salma Hayek Pinault, Michelle Yeoh, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Jacques Audiard or Judith Godrèche on the occasion of the official Women In Motion dinner.
François-Henri Pinault, Chairman and CEO of Kering, Iris Knob...
The 77th Festival de Cannes is delighted to celebrate Studio Ghibli, legendary Japanese animation studio. On Monday, May 20, at 3.30pm, film director and Creative Development Director of the Ghibli Park Gorō Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki' son, will take to the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to receive the Honorary Palme d'or, on behalf of the entire Studio Ghibli including the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka and Ghibli Park, from Festival President Iris Knobloch and Gener...
The Festival de Cannes and the City of Cannes are gearing up for Paris 2024! Sports personalities and athletes will be the guests of an exceptional evening on Tuesday, May 21, for the premiere screening of Mickaël Gamrasni’s documentary Olympiques! La France des Jeux, with its most prestigious ambassador, the Olympic flame!
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The 75th Berlin International Film Festival came to a successful close with the Berlinale Publikumstag (Audience Day) on February 23. After the festive Award Ceremony (see full list of award winners) on Saturday evening, where Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love)) by Dag Johan Haugerud was awarded the Golden Bear, thousands of viewers once again flocked to the cinemas on the Berlinale Publikumstag for catch-up screenings of films from the anniversary edition.
Interest in the progr...
2025 Victoria Film Festival
The 31st Victoria Film Festival featured:
91 feature films
30 shorts
37 screenings with a guest
a record 40 sold out screenings
27 guests at the SpringBoard industry event
7 venues
1 trivia night
and vampire zombies.
As well, there are seven award winners! Check them out below!
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UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY IN LOS ANGELES
The 20th Annual Event in Los Angeles featuring Italian Motion Pictures, Audiovisuals, Music, Fashion, Tourism and Food will take place from February 23rd to March 1st, on the eve of the 2024 Academy Awards (March 2nd).
The event will highlight Italy's longstanding cinematic, lifestyle and artistic legacy and will introduce current Italian productions and excellences to the United States.
Under the auspic...
PARAM KALRA: From sci-fi to Rom Kom
A Physics graduate from Delhi, with a certificate in video editing, writer-director Param Kalra began his career rather modestly. He will not name the films, but they were B and C grade, he says, nonchalantly. Ignoring the content of those films, he learnt about the basics of shooting any film during this period. Whether it is a B grade or C grade film, there will be trolley movements, there will be prime or ultra-prime lenses, and the rest of shooting para...
While Radu Jude's new film Kontinental '25 was part of the main competition and later won the Silver Bear for best screenplay and Radu Muntean was on the jury for the best European Shooting Star, the Romanian presence at the 75th edition was not limited to this.
Further Romanian film makers attended the EFM 13-19.02 under the slogan "Time to Go East: Come see the Romanians"
17 Romanian companies attended once again the Berlinale under the umbrella of Creativ...
Silver Bear for Best Screenplay for screenwriter-director Radu Jude and an unexpected succes for the social satire Kontinental ’25 which has sold many European territories after world premiering at Berlinale just a week ago.
Representatives of the Romanian production company Saga Film told FNE that Luxbox sold Kontinental '25 to 21 countries including France (to Météore Films); Italy (I Wonder Pictures); Portugal (Films4you); Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denma...
Baden-Württemberg's State Secretary for Culture Arne Braun and MFG CEO Carl Bergengruen awarded Johannes Naber, member of the German "Bundesverband Regie" with the Thomas Strittmatter Prize 2025 at the festive award ceremony which took place on the 19.02 at the Baden-Württemberg State Representation which is located within a 15 min walking distance from the Berlinale Film Palast. Film director Michael Chauvistré, on the board of "Bundesverband Regie" cong...
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At Saturday’s awards ceremony for Berlin International Film Festival, Dag Johan Haugerud’s film Dreams (Sex Love) received the Golden Bear. This marks the first time a Norwegian feature film has won this prize.
"Never before has a Norwegian film received this honor. That it is now happening with Dreams (Sex Love) is a fantastic recognition of Dag Johan Haugerud as a filmmaker and a powerful conclusion to the launch of the trilogy Sex Dreams Love, all of which have reach...
Today were announced the winners of the CICAE Arthouse Cinema Awards at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Recognizing exceptional artistry and storytelling in independent cinema, the CICAE Arthouse Cinema Awards are given at major international festivals by an international jury of arthouse cinema exhibitors and programmers, and aim at bringing high-quality films to the arthouse cinemas. The Jury is composed of arthouse cinema exhibitors and members of the association, who apply thr...
HOLDING LIAT By Brandon Kramer – FORUM World Premiere
Brandon Kramer (director), Lance Kramer (producer), Liat Beinin-Atzili, Yehuda Beinin, Chaya Beinin, and Tal Beinin at the world premiere of Holding Liat. Delphi-Filmpalast, Berlin, February 16, 2025.
Michael O'Ryan © 2025
A film that is shot truly open-endedly, in...
Golden Bear for Best Film awarded to the film’s producers of
Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love))
by Dag Johan Haugerud
Produced by: Yngve Sæther, Hege Hauff Hvattum
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
O último azul (The Blue Trail)
by Gabriel Mascaro
Silver Bear Jury Prize
El mensaje (The Message)
by Iván Fund
Silver Bear for Best Director
Huo Meng
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Berlinale 2025: Prizes at Generation Kplus
Clockwise from top left: Maya, donne-moi un titre (Maya, Give Me a Title) © Partizan Films; Zirkuskind (Circusboy) © Julia Lemke / Flare Film; Down in the Dumps; Little Rebels Cinema Club
Berlinale 2025: Crystal Bears at Generation Kplus
Crystal Bears
The members of the Children’s Jury Generation Kplus – Bonnie Lou Severin, Lenja Utecht, Jim ...
PRIZES OF THE INDEPENDENT JURIES PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Members of the Jury: Juan Carlos Carrillo Cal y Mayor, Peter Ciaccio, Valérie de Marnhac, Christian Olding, Dr. Brigitta Rotach, Dr. Stefanie Schardien
Competition
O último azul (The Blue Trail) by Gabriel Mascaro
Jury Statement: This Brazilian dystopic fable follows an unlikely hero in a search for freedom. A 77 years-old woman escapes from a future that has been written for her by an authoritarian state...
Sorda © Nuria Jean; Die Möllner Briefe © inselfilm produktion
The audience has voted: The 27th Panorama Audience Award for the best feature film goes to Sorda by Eva Libertad, Die Möllner Briefe by Martina Priessner wins in the category Panorama Dokumente. The prizes are awarded by the Berlinale section Panorama together with radioeins and rbb television (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg).
The award-...
THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995
I take this opportunity to extend our warmest wishes for a successful new year on the festival circuit. We are working hard on a new version of our platform to better serve our community. Filmfestivals.com was established in 1995 before google existed, turned into a social network in 2006 with a blog platform welcoming festivals and film professionnals with some 120...
Clockwise from top left: Sunshine; Hora do recreio (Playtime); Atardecer en América (Sunset over America); Wish You Were Ear © Mirjana Balogh
Crystal Bears and Prizes of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) at Generation 14plus
Crystal Bears
The members of the Youth Jury Generation 14plus – Nour Ibrahim, Zeynep Atay, Tyler Kurokhtin, Jil Baalmann, Rohan Yadav – have a...
AMPLIFYING GROWTH, CONCORD ORIGINALS ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE ROLES FOR CHARLES HOPKINS AND WESLEY ADAMS
Appoints Imogen Lloyd Webber as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Communications (Worldwide)
Concord Originals, the film and TV division of Concord, the world’s leading independent music company and licensor of stage productions, has expanded its executive ranks and elevated Charles Hopkins to Vice President of Development and Wesley Adams to Vice President of P...
Cloud9 Studios handling International Sales at the European Film Market
Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike, Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) is joined by Academy Award-nominee Guy Pearce (A24’s The Brutalist, Christopher Nolan’s Memento, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker), Maria Pedraza (Netflix’s “Money Heist”) and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad, HBO’s “His Dark Materials”) in the erotic...
Anton announced today that it has locked distribution deals in key international territories for the action-thriller Fuze starring Aaron Taylor Johnson (Bullet Train, Nosferatu), Theo James (“The White Lotus,” “The Gentlemen”), Sam Worthington (Avatar films), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Disney+’s “Loki”), Elham Ehsas (Showtime’s “Homeland”), Honor Swinton-Byrne (A24’s The Souvenir), and Saffron Hocking (Netflix’s “Top Boy”)...
