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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”)...
The festival has celebrated incredible interest shown by the public, who is flocking to the cinemas to see the best of international cinema and cheer on the stars on the Red Carpet. Many directors and actors from all over the world have presented their work during the first half of the festival, including Tilda Swinton, Edward Berger, Tom Tykwer, Nicolette Krebitz, Lars Eidinger, Tala Al-Deen, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Ira Sachs, Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall...
Eurimages Co-production Development Awards Ceremony at the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2025
Five cash prizes and one in-kind award were awarded to selected feature film projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 15 to 19) on Sunday and Monday.
The Eurimages Co-production Development Award, endowed with 20,000 euros, went to the producers of Cinédokké & Okofilm Productions from Switzerland for their project Ibicaba - Visions of Parad...
FINE YOUNG MAN (‘HOMBRES INTEGROS’)
Santa Barbara international film festival
Interview with director Alejandro Andrade Pease and lead actor Andrés Revo by Emmanuel Itier
‘Hombres Integros’ (Fine Young Man) is the journey of a young man, Alf, played by the talented Andres Revo and looking for himself. Growing to become the man he truly is in spite of the macho environment that he suffocates in. Directed by “maestro” Alejandro Andr...
Spring of the Vanishing
Santa Barbara international film festival
Interview with investigative reporter Andrew Glazer and J. Weston Phippen (producer)., by Emmanuel Itier
Watch the trailer!
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O HORIZON
Santa Barbara film festival
Interview with director: Madeleine Rotzler, by Emmanuel Itier
Having lost my dad recently I can identify to Madeleine Rotzler splendid new film: ‘O Horizon’. In this film, Abby, played by the talented Maria Bakalova, is developing a new technology to talk with her deceased father, Warren, played by maestro David Strathairn. Madeleine has assembled a very poetic and charming movie with a deep soul. Her choice of perfect shots is enhan...
The Global Entertainment Awards (GEA) and Women In Cloud (WIC) today announced an innovative partnership aimed at fostering collaboration between the technology and entertainment industries, with a specific focus on empowering women in both sectors.
The partnership will take a two-pronged approach to achieve its goals: firstly, by empowering marketing and distribution creatives with access to AI tools from Women In Cloud via the Global Entertainment Awards AMD Emerging Talent ...
The Jury of the 32nd edition of the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival, chaired by Vimala Pons with Vladimir Cauchemar, Jérémy Clapin, Clotilde Hesme, William Lebghil, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel gave the following awards:
Grand Prize
Supported by la Région Grand Est
IN A VIOLENT NATURE by Chris Nash (Canda)
(French distribution : Mediawan Rights / Insomnia)
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The Jury of the 32nd edition of the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival, chaired by Vimala Pons with Vladimir Cauchemar, Jérémy Clapin, Clotilde Hesme, William Lebghil, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel gave the following awards:
Grand Prize
Supported by la Région Grand Est
IN A VIOLENT NATURE by Chris Nash (Canda)
(French distribution : Mediawan Rights / Insomnia)
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Bengaluru International Film Festival, BIFFes, 2025: Universal Peace in Diversity
At one time, Bangalore (now Bengaluru) was considered an ideal holiday location and a town where retirees could settle down after their decades of service. Today’s Bengaluru is nothing of the kind. It has progressed beyond the wildest imaginations. Many top companies, both Indian and foreign, have made it their headquarters, or regional headquarters. And, perhaps, it was the first city to earn the title of...
2025 SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
AWARD WINNING FILMS ANNOUNCED
Awards were announced at a ceremony this morning hosted by El Encanto, a Belmond Hotel, in Santa Barbara with Jury and Filmmakers in attendance.
“It's an undeniable pleasure to celebrate such a diverse and wonderful array of winning films," said Claudia Puig, SBIFF Programming Director. " We have been so excited to showcase storytelling from 60 countries around the world in our slate of ...
(L-R) Nicole Sperling, Alex Coco, Alex Heineman, Brian Young, Coralie Fargea and Cale Boyter attend the producers panel at the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 10, 2025 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images for Santa Barbara International Film Festival) Courtesy of SBIFF
This high caliber panel brought together a very impressive lineup of industry heavyweight producers attached to the key Oscars contender films: Cale Boyter (Du...
Categories of entries at the 3rd Tamil Nadu Film Festival, 10-19 August 2025, Chennai
INTERNATIONAL Narrative Feature
*Films originating from outside India must be submitted in the INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY.
*Films produced from 1st January 2021 are eligible to participate in the competition section of the TNFF.
*Submit films made in any language and from anywhere in the world except INDIA.
*Films with a minimum run time of 45 minutes to a maximum run time of 120 Minutes are eligible under t...
Trailer launch of CrazXy: What’s new and different this time?
With an output of two films since 2012, actor-producer Sohum Shah cannot be called prolific. “I believe in taking due time, right from the script stage till the post-production. This is done to achieve something different, something new, in each of my films,” explained Shah. He was speaking to the press at the trailer launch of his third film, CrazXy, at the Juhu PVR multiplex, on 17 February. Releasing on the 28t...
World Premiere of "Anastasia Kobekina – Now or Never"
Many share the dream of a global career - but what does it truly take to make that dream a reality? Following the charismatic cellist Anastasia Kobekina, the documentary offers a unique look behind the closed doors of her record label, concert halls and into her private life. Having started to play the cello at age four, Anastasia struggles with the decisions made for her and those she must make, when asking herself: &...
The report on the 2024 Festival
A total of 172,301 spectators flocked to the 676 screenings of the 252 films from 53 countries at the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival, translating into a rise in audience figures of 8.9% compared to the 158,194 recorded in 2023.
For the third year in a row, the Festival has surpassed its record of accredited guests, whose figures passed the 5,000 mark for the first time last year and stood at 5,314 this year, i.e. a rise of 5.8%. Almost half of ...
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