Let' s hear this fantastic story from the words of its very own founder our friend Mario Dorminsky pictured here with Bruno Chatelin and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira
"The festival was born in 1980 at a table of a small coffee shop in the center of Oporto, heritage world town by UNESCO, in a conversation between the three founders, film critics Mário Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and the painter José Manuel Pereira. It immediately presented in the first edition (1981)...
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Dear Friend(s) and Colleague(s)
Greetings from Porto
We regret but the submissions to the 45th Porto International Film Festival | Fantasporto 2025 are closed since November 30th.
This year the festival, not working with any platform for submission of films, received for selection more than 600 features (for 80 spots) and around 1300 short films (...
Marge Liiske presents the awards ceremony in Tallinn during PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024.
Marge serves as the Head of Industry at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
After an exciting week of networking, presentations, panel discussions, and meetings, Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event celebrated the most outstanding projects with the award ceremony. 17 awards were handed out to film projects at various stages of scriptwriting, develop...
Posted By Robin Menken
Swiss-Peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke’s quiet family drama is set in 1992, during the economic collapse in Peru, a national curfew and the constant attacks of the far-left terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path).
An opening archival television news report features Peru’s minister of the economy announcing that in the next 24 hours, the price of milk will jump from 120,000 Peruvian intis to 330,000, the cost of sugar, now 150,000 intis, will...
Actor and director Giulio Base is the new artistic director of the TFF. A perfect fit, not only is he originally from Torino, kind of a must in order to be suitable for the TFF, he is also married to Tiziana Rocca, herself a celebrity and best connected to Hollywood. No wonder then that Hollywood stars are present at the current TFF edition. For the very first time this is happening in Torino, so many American actors are discovering Torino, this beautiful and elegant capital of the...
Angelina Jolie came to Torino and presented on November 24 her new film titled "Without blood".
The war drama film written, co-produced and directed by Angelina Jolie is based on Alessandro Baricco's book, who presented together with Jolie the adaptation of his novel to the press and later to the audience.
While no questions where related to her private life and the battle about the children between her and Brad Pitt, she spoke to journal...
French actress Emanuelle Béart received the Stella della Mole award for her entire carrier at the TFF.
Seductive, innocent, charming, a vamp, desired by all men. These have been the adjectifs for the French actress best known from films like "Une femme française".
A new facette of her I discovered at the TFF. Courageous!
And a hidous thruth. Incest!
Emanuelle Béart is premiering in Torino her docum...
By Kate Elfatah
The 45th Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) has been a resounding success, attracting huge audiences and presenting the spectrum of cinematic talents. I recently sat down with CIFF Program Director Essam Zakaria to discuss the festival’s triumphant re-entry, its commitment to international cinema, and its plans for the future.
A Resurgence of Cinema Passion
Zakaria was o...
By Kate Elfatah
The 45th Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) was capped off with an elegant award ceremony on Friday, November 22, at the Cairo Opera House , which honoured a wide variety of film accomplishments around the world. I was lucky enough to be there, to experience first-hand the passion and craftsmanship that underwrote this year’s stellar line-up of movies.
The Best Film was the Romanian film, Bogdan Mureșanu’s The New Year That Never Came. It was an intense...
The proud winners of the Audience Award (Pyre, dir. Vinod Kapri).
Highlights:
Silent City Driver wins the Grand Prix for the Best Film of Official Selection Competition, also scooped the Best Production Design Award;
The Best First Feature Film Award goes to No Dogs Allowed;
Southern Chronicles gets the Best Baltic Film award;
In the Rebels with a Cause competition programme, the award for the Best Film go...
