Actor Jackie Chan poses with the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) CEO Mohammed al-Turki and chairwoman Jomana al-Rashid on the Red Carpet during the closing ceremony of the second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF), in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on December 8, 2022.
The second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RedSeaIFF), taking place from 1-10 December 2022, today announced the winners of the Red Sea competition section...
Red Sea Souk Awards winners were announced today during the ongoing Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) in Jeddah. Aimed at fostering co-production, worldwide distribution, and new business prospects, the Red Sea Souk is a film market created to support the thriving Saudi, African and Arab industries and promote talent. Distributors, sales representatives, and producers looking to expand their regional reach attend it.
This year, the four-day souk attracted a larger crow...
The Red Sea International Film Festival honored the Egyptian cinema icon Yousra with a GOLD YUSR Honorary Awards at the opening ceremony of the Festivals’ second edition in Jeddah on the Eastern shore of the Red Sea.
Along with acclaimed British director Guy Ritchie and the legendary Indian actor and producer Shah Rukh Khan, the Festival honored the three outstanding talents to recognize their exceptional contribution to the film industry. The Festival is set to run ...
RIFF AWARDS 2022 17 /25 November 2022 RIFF - Rome Independent Film Festival in its 21st edition announces award winners
Best Italian Film is “Un mondo fantastico” by Michele Rovini
Best International Film “Alice” by Krystin Ver Linden
Best Italian Documentary “Il paese delle persone integre” by Christian Carmosino Mereu
Best International Documentary “Moruroa Papa” by Paul Manate Raoux
Best Italian Short Film is “Super Jesus” by ...
From 3rd April to 30th June 2023, the Annecy Festival Residency will be hosting new artists who will be working on the graphic development of their animation feature films.
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Congratulation to the winners of the Excellence Awards 2022!
The eight winners of the Excellence Awards have been unveiled by the European Film Academy today. The winners in the categories honouring the different arts and crafts will receive their awards at the European Film Awards ceremony on 10 December in Reykjavík:
European Cinematography
Kate McCullough for THE QUIET GIRL
European Editing
Özcan Vardar & Eytan İpeker for BURNING...
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
The Golden Pyramid Award for Best Film
Alam by Firas Khoury
The Silver Pyramid, Special Jury Award, for Best Director
Love according do Dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot
The Bronze Pyramid Award for Best First/Second Work
Bread and Salt by Damian Kocur
Naguib Mahfouz Award for Best Screenplay
A man by Kei Ishikawa (kosuki mukai)
Best Actor Award (split for two actors)
The dam by Ali Ch...
La cotta (The Crush, Italy, 1967
Over 70 entries - ranging from fiction, documentaries and animation - from Mauritania, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Croatia and Germany, along with several other European countries and a substantial Italian representative, were selected to compete in the third edition of the Ermanno Olmi Award, an event aiming to promote short films by young directors.
Flores del precipicio by Andrea Gatopoulos (Spain, Italy, Brazil, 2022), Garfield Coquillage by Paul Marques...
ANNOUNCING OUR 2022 FILM AWARD WINNERS
The votes are in... drumroll please... We are proud to announce that this year's overall ballotted film scores were higher than any program in ILLUMINATE history!
A huge CONGRATULATIONS to our 2022 ILLUMINATE Film Festival award winners:
Audience Award*
Love Heals
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
ManguTV ...
The jury announced the winner of the Works in Progress Stockholm International Film Festival 2022, supported by the Odesa International Film Festival.
The jury consisted of top Swedish filmmakers: director Daniel Espinosa, producer Fredrik Zaner and filmmaker Siri Hjorton Wagner.
They chose a winner from 10 presented projects, which are at any stage of production and belong to different genres.
The winner of Works in Progress was the project Pride is not available in your...
The winners of the 2022 Golden Reel Awards were announced at the 21st Annual Tiburon International Film Festival:
Best Film: The Eaglets. Grodno'39 [Poland]
Best Director: Krzysztof Lukaszewicz, for The Eaglets. Grodno'39 [Poland]
Best Actor: Marko Matvere, for On the Water [Estonia]
Best Actress: Kinga Preis, for Back Then [Poland]
Best Documentary: Oscar Peterson: Black + White, directed b...
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The winners of IDFA's 35th edition competition programs were announced at the Awards Ceremony taking place at ITA (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam) and were live-streamed here.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Apolonia, Apolonia by Lea Glob is the winner of the IDFA Award for Best Film. The award is accompanied by a €15,000 cash prize.
"This film has characters who breathe life and take us on a journey, o...
Audience Award
Narrative Feature: THE QUIET GIRL
Director: Colm Bairéad
Country: Ireland
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Winners include Chiqui, Unidentified Objects,
The Smell of Money and more!
BROOKLYN, NY, (November 15, 2022) – The Bushwick Film Festival (BFF) celebrated its 15th edition this year from November 1 - November 7, with over 100 independent films from Brooklyn and around the world. The festival included an Opening Night Red Carpet Reception presented by Spectrum on November 1st at Lot 45, live screenings ho...
Final day for the Marrakech International Film Festival
During the 19th Closing Ceremony, the jury announced this year's awards and paid tribute to Tilda Swinton
The Étoile d'Or awarded to A TALE OF SHEMROON
by Iranian director Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi
An Exceptional edition
The 19th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival was exceptional in many ways. First, it marks the return of the event after a two-year break due to...
The Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) announced that the legendary Indian actor and producer Shah Rukh Khan will receive an Honorary Award to recognize his exceptional contribution to the film industry at the opening ceremony of the Festival’s second edition in Jeddah, on the Eastern shore of the Red Sea. The Festival is set to run from the 1-10 December and will present 131 feature films and shorts from 61 countries in 41 languages from both established and emerging talent...
Distributor Hisham Alghanim (Front Row Filmed Entertainment) who received the award on behalf of Jerzey Skolimowski with EFP-Managing Director Sonja Heinen and Alaa Karkouti, Co-Founder of the Arab Cinema Center (right)
The Polish-Italian co-production EO by Jerzy Skolimowski has won this year's Arab Critics' Awards for European Films, which is being presented for the fourth time by European Film Promotion (EFP) and Arab Cinema Center (ACC) at the Cairo International Film Festi...
‘Motherland,’ which HuffPost’s Thom Senzee called ‘Most Anticipated Documentary Film of 2022’ and director Vic Gerami, won the two top prizes at the annual Pomegranate Film Festival (POM). The film won the ‘Audience Choice Award,’ while Gerami won the festival’s ‘Golden Pomegranate Award’ for outstanding contributions to Armenian Cinema.
‘Motherland’ is a contender for the O...
Outstanding Performer of the Year Award
Honoring
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The European Film Academy revealed the nominees of the main categories of the 35th European Film Awards. The award ceremony takes place on 10 December in Reykjavík and will celebrate the best of European Film culture.
For the first time the Academy announces the nominations in a video presenting all nominated productions and protagonists. Please find the video here.
These are the nominations:
European Film:
ALCARRÀS direct...
BKK short Doc - International Short Documentary Award is thrilled to announce the nominees to the BKK short DOC 2022 Official Selection. Full details: http://bkkdoc.com/bkkshortdoc-officialselection2022.html
Best Short Documentary
1.The Children of the Wandering Moon/ Thailand
2.MEMORIA/ Spain
3.Waimai (Takeaway)/ Spain
4.Weekly News Report Women in Afghanistan/ Hong Kong
5.Cest La Vie: Life with ALS/ China
6.The Boys Club/ Malaysia
7.HER - Women in Asia/ Germany
8.Let There Be Lig...
SAFE PLACE convinces at the 32nd FilmFestival Cottbus
Juraj Lerotić wins the main prize for the best film in the Feature Film Competition of the 32nd FilmFestival Cottbus. This means that the Croatian-Slovenian production SAFE PLACE is awarded the prize of 25,000 EUR. SAFE PLACE describes the desperate search for the right behavior after a family member has tried to commit suicide. The feature film debut convinces the International Festival Jury and wins the main prize "for the...
Historic first wins for Indonesia, Jordan, Armenia, Cambodia, Pakistan
Female filmmakers dominate feature film awards, new performance categories.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy announced the winners at the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) at a Gala Ceremony on Australia’s Gold Coast on Friday evening, with nominees able to attend for the first time since 2019.
APSA celebrates cinematic storytelling that best reflects its cultural o...
LA Independent Women Film Awards celebrates the independence of women as filmmakers, writers, producers, actresses, cinematographers, composers and editors who are creating groundbreaking indie arthouse film projects in a variety of genres. The festival brings together American and international talents to compete in various sections of the bi-monthly and annual competition. It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the 9th edition of the LA Independent Women Film Award...
AFI FEST 2022 announced today the films that received this year’s Jury awards. The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action Short, Documentary Short and Animated Short will be eligible for the 2022 Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary Short and Best Animated Short Academy Awards®. The Jury was comprised of writer/director Shaz Bennett, writer/director Johnson Cheng and film critic, journalist and filmmaker Tim Cogshell.
“AFI FEST is a proud symbol of the power of t...