Continuing and concluding my experiences of watching films at IFFI 2024, and walking out usually, after 30-40 minutes. MEETING WITH POL POT France, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Taiwan, Qatar, Turkey  Three persons credited with the Screenplay, one of them being the author of the book, When the War was over: Cambodia and the, Khmer Rouge Revolution, by Elizabeth Becker, which must have been the basis of the film. Directed by Rithy Panh. It was nothing like I had expected from the tile and the ...

IFFI 2024, 16: Quality of films seen and the recurring walk-outs You may find it incredible that I walked out of so many films, and I find it terrible that I had to. Never, in my living memory, have I walked out of so many films at any given film festival. IFFI 2024, however, took the cake. In the recent past, with films being polarised into block-buster, but inane, action extravaganzas and the well-intentioned small films that just do not have it in them to hold a viewer’s interest, ther...

IFFI 2024, 15: Accreditation for media-persons, and what they should expect if and when it is granted Setting-up and Opening MyIFFI (your account at the website), you can register on a form for getting accreditation as a media-person, to attend the International Film Festival of India, which is held regularly in Panaji, Goa (since 2004). If you fill the form correctly, meeting their expectations, some of which are very demanding, you will get a response that your application is registered. Th...

PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS TO HONOR TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET WITH THE CHAIRMAN’S AWARD   The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Timothée Chalamet is the recipient of the Chairman’s Award for his performance in Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknown from James Mangold. The Film Awards will take place on January 3, 2025, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running J...

Pushpa means flower in Hindi. Our protagonist is not a flower, but a fire. Not any ordinary fire, but as he declares, to his nemesis, Shekhawat, “wild fire.”. This ‘flowery wild fire’ learns the skill of swimming and holding his breath underwater for much longer than the average swimmer, instantaneously, when forced to fetch a cricket ball from the bottom of a pond. Apparently illiterate, or, at best, semi-literate, he lives in the Chittoor district of Telangana, so his...

The Grand Prix winners of 2024 (Silent City Driver, dir. Sengedorj Janchivdorj). Photo: Erlend Štaub.  Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival wrapped up the numbers of 2024 The 28th edition of Black Nights broke the all-time audience record, as the number of admissions in 2024 were 93 044. The previous record was set in 2019, when the festival gathered around 90 000 visits at the screenings. The festival had also a record number of sold-out screenings (118). ...

The panel discussion titled "Hot or Not: Cracking the Code of Sales and Distribution Today" offers an exciting and necessary exploration of the post-COVID cinema market. Experienced industry professionals Yohann Comte (Charades), Céline Dornier (Logical Pictures), Clément Chautant (Arizona Distribution) and Stephan Henz (DCM Distribution), will answer to the questions like "How is the market of the post-covid era?" "In terms of titles and genres, what is...

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Following an introduction from Marge Liiske, Head of Industry at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024, Diana Mikita, NAFTA films producer commented "all the projects are winners! " and presented the "Best Just Film Project" to EMI as THE winner and recipient of the 2500 euro monetary prize by Nafta Films. The Best Just Film Project received a 2500 euro monetary prize by Nafta Films. Winner: Emi Writer and director: Ezequiel Erriquez M...

https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/the_robin_menken_reviews/my_love_affair_with_marriage   “My Love Affair With Marriage”   Posted by Robin Menken        Signe Baumane’s multi award-winning “My Love Affair With Marriage” is a exuberant mixed-media feature animation, a musical blend of neuroscience, gender issues and old fashion romance- gone wrong!       Baumane’s signature style goes back to her earliest shor...