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BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT Powers Paige Morrow Kimball BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Being Michelle Atin Mehra Honorable Mention If You Are a Man Simon Panay Honorable Mention Jack Has a Plan Bradley Berman BEST NARRATIVE SHORT North Star P.J. Palmer Honorable Mention Ousmane Jorge Camarotti Honorable Mention Split Ends Alireza Kazemipour BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE The Justice of Bunny King Gaysorn Thavat Honorable Mention Night F...

Nominees for the 4th Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films

European Film Promotion and Arab Cinema Center Announce the Films Nominated for the Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films 76 Critics From 15 Countries Participate in Selecting the Award   European Film Promotion (EFP) and Arab Cinema Center (ACC) have announced the list of European films that will be competing in the 4th Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films. The list includes 23 European films, where 76 Arab critics from 15 countries will watch the films on Festival ...

Cittador International Film Festival Vienna – Selected Films until November 01, 2022

Cittador International Film Festival has selected ten promising short films until November 1, 2022! The submission period is until December 15, 2022. We are excited about new submissions! Key data: The submission period: until December 15, 2022;  Selection date: shortly after submission, but no later than December 15, 2022;  Notification date: December 22, 2022;  Screenings: December 27, 2022 at the Studio Cinema Lugner City Vienna.   Homepage: https://iff.citta...

„When the Woodlark Sings“ – Official Selection on the Bogocine 39

Our film “When the Woodlark Sings” / “Cuando la alondra canta” was selected on the Bogocine 39 – Festival de cine de Bogotá in Columbia! From the pre-selection of 30 films, we made it to the OFFICIAL SELECTION among 9 films in the INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION! Bogocine - Bogotá, Colombia - is a world-renowned film festival and celebrates its 39th year this year. We are very proud and grateful that this festival has selected our film among 2000 films tha...

Discover the winners of this year's CineFAM Film Festival Awards

  Congratulations to the 2022 CineFAM award winners!     BEST SHORT FILM Who’s Next? – Directed by Amreen Ghouse, Canada (2019)   BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM Guardians – Directed by Minerva Navasca, Canada (2021)   BEST LONG SHORT FILM Out of Order – Directed by Sheronna Osbourne, Canada (2021)   BEST DIRECTOR Chance Encounter – Directed by Sandra Mathieu, Canada (2021)  ­ ­ ­ ­ ...

Ji.hlava Industry Awards 2022

Forest  director Lidia Duda and producer Adrianna Redzia     The awards were accorded to the most promising European and U.S. documentary projects presented at the 2nd edition of the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum on Friday night.   Altogether 26 projects (16 from Europe and 10  from U.S.) in the development, production and post-production stage were presented at Ji.hlava IDFF. The jury was composed by the artistic director Berlinale Carlo Chatrian, U.S. film producer...

58th Chicago International Film Festival Audience Choice Awards

  After 12 incredible days of films, we've tallied your votes, and we are thrilled to announce the winners of the 58th Chicago International Film Festival Audience Choice Awards, presented by Xfinity! Audience Choice Award: Best Feature Winners Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Dir. Rian Johnson | US The Year Between Dir. Alex Heller | US     ...

The 26th Ji.hlava IDFF is now on and has handed out its first awards!

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Romanian producer Ada Solomon was accorded the APA World Excellence Award The 26th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival has been officially launched and its opening evening featured the presentation of the first festival awards. The best Short Joy section film is selected by the online viewers of DAFilms.com, this year going to Blue Bed by Belgian director Lize Cuveele. This year, Ji.hlava presents almost four hundred films and the festival will continue until October 30. Ple...

That’s a wrap on LFF 2022!

  Curtains are officially drawn on the 66th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express which marked a return to pre-pandemic highs for in-person audience attendance. To all of you who joined us in person on the South Bank or in the West End, at our 9 partner cinemas around the UK or from the comfort of your home via BFI Player, a massive thank you for being part of this one. Read more   ...

39th TISFF Winners Announced; Spain's "Descartes" to enter 2023 Academy Awards

The competition category winners of both national and international cinemas in the 39th round of the Tehran International Short Film Festival have been announced, with the Spanish short film "Descartes" directed by Concha Barquero and Alejandro Alvarado Jodar chosen as the submission to the 2023 Academy Awards. International Cinema Competition Section The ceremony continued with members of the jury in the international competition category including Edvinas Puksta, Mirona Radu, Mah...

Ojay Fest Social Impact & Vison Award Winners Announced

  Social Impact & Vison Award Winners Announced     For the second year the Ojai Film Festival will honor films for the Social Impact and Vision Award, sponsored by Panavision. Begun in 2021 the “Diversity and Inclusion for Social Impact and Vision” program explores the breadth of “diversity.” At the same time it examines “intersectionality,” aspects of a person’s identity that may cause conflict yet create an opportunity for un...

The 28th Annual Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie Festival AWARD WINNERS!

  2nd Grand Prize! - Undeniably Young: Nora Young and the Six Day Race – Julia Morgan   1st Prize! - Cat Clay Chaos – Emmett Fifield   3rd Prize! - Candied Lips – Hina Effie Ogino   4th Prize! - Into the Realm of the Night – Patrick Muller   5th Prize - Lemon Lime – Mara Ramirez   6th Prize - Closed World and It's Freinds - Nuhae Lee   ...

9th annual Highland Park Independent Film Festival Awards

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9th annual Highland Park Independent Film Festival 2022 award winners   BEST SHORT FILMS Horror in the Hood Shorts Program: Something in the Garden directed by Marcos Sanchez SCI-FI on FIG Shorts Program: See You On The Other Side directed by The Sommers Brothers Arroyo Seco Shorts Program: My Summer Vacation directed by Kelly O'Sullivan Route 66 Shorts Program: Lead/Follow directed by Colby Day Los Filmmakers Shorts Program: No Soy Oscar directed by Jon Ayon   AUDIENC...

Gent Festival audience crowns stop-motion film 'Oink' as winner of North Sea Port Audience Award

    On Monday 24 October, the very last prize of the 49th edition of Film Fest Gent was handed out. The festival audience voted Mascha Halberstad's charming stop-motion film Oink as the winner of the North Sea Port Audience Award. The animated film was already the big winner at the Golden Calves in Utrecht, taking home awards for Best Film, Best Direction and Best Production Design. Oink is the official Dutch Oscar entry in the Best Animated Feature category. The internati...

Winners of the Audience Award at the 38th Warsaw Film Festival

      Here are the films, which were liked the most by the audience of the 38th Warsaw International Film Festival, which came to an end yesterday. A. Fiction features: 1. Dangerous Men / Niebezpieczni dżentelmeni, dir. Maciej Kawalski, Poland 2. Trio, dir. Battumur Dorj, Mongolia 3. Pamfir, dir. Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Ukraine / Francje / Poland / Chile / Luxembourg / Germany 4. Shreds / Strzępy, dir. Beata Dzianowicz, Poland 5. Blaze, dir. Del Kathryn Barton, ...

The winners of the 13th Odesa International Film Festival have been announced in Warsaw

  This year, the National Competition of the 13th Odesa International Film Festival, given the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, was held within the framework of the Warsaw International Film Festival. The programme "Odessa - Warsaw: Ukrainian competition" included 11 feature films and 7 short films. The winners of the competition were determined by an expert jury, which included a producer and director Dariusz Jablonski (Poland), producer and screenwriter Ilona Łe...

„When the Woodlark Sings“ – Double Award Winner on the Crown Point International Film Festival in Chicago

Our film "When the Woodlark Sings" was selected on the Crown Point International Film Festival in Chicago USA and it is Award Winner in categories BEST 1st TIME DIRECTOR and BEST SCORE!  We are overjoyed and grateful for the double Award! We thank the whole cast and crew as well as our supporters who believed in us! Watch the trailer with english subtitles: https://youtu.be/oXuEJiN3rD0 More information: https://heidelerche-film.cittador.com ...

New York Film Festival 2022 wrapped

  Celebrating its 60th anniversary, the New York Film Festival (NYFF) continues to rank as one of the most important film festivals in the United States. NYFF 2022 operates very differently from its early 60s origins and the expansive program reflects this. One of the co-founders of NYFF, Amos Vogel, quoted by Manohla  Dargis, emphasized in 1965 that the mission of the festival was to reflect the most interesting  trends and new works in global film making. For Vogel, the comme...

Céline Sciamma receives Joseph Plateau Honorary Award, presented by Lukas Dhont, at Film Fest Gent 2022

  Céline Sciamma receives Joseph Plateau Honorary Award, presented by Lukas Dhont, at Film Fest Gent 2022 French filmmaker Céline Sciamma, best known for her game-changing historical drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire, has received a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award at Film Fest Gent on Wednesday 12 October. She was handed the award by Lukas Dhont, who kicked off the festival the day before with his sophomore feature Close. Before the award ceremony the two filmmakers talked in d...

European Film Academy reveals one winner and further nominations

EXTERIOR NIGHT by Marco Bellocchio receives award for European Innovative Storytelling Nominations for European Comedy, Animated Feature Film and Short Film announced On the occasion of the 35th European Film Awards on 10 December in Reykjavik, the European Film Academy is honouring the Italian veteran auteur director Marco Bellocchio with the Award for European Innovative Storytelling for his outstanding mini-series EXTERIOR NIGHT. The director will be guest of honour at the awards ceremony...

Pierre et Jeanne wins big at Chelsea Festival in New York: best director, best actor

Congratulations to Clémentine Célarié and Loris Freeman for their Best Director and Best Actor awards at the 10th Chelsea Film Festival in New York for the film PIERRE ET JEANNE produced by Sazia Films!  ...

TIFF Amazon Prime Video Take One Award Finalists Announced

Co-Presented by 35th TIFF + Amazon Prime Video Amazon Prime Video Take One Award Finalists Announced   The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is pleased to announce the Amazon Prime Video Take One Award Finalists. To discover new talent, TIFF started its partnership with Prime Video from 2021 to establish the new ...

Nominees for the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) revealed

ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 15TH APSA NOMINEES, JURIES, REVEALS FIRST AWARD WINNERS The Asia Pacific Screen Academy today announced the full list of nominees for the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), as well as the International Juries who will determine the winners ahead of the glamorous APSA Ceremony at HOTA on Australia’s Gold Coast on Friday November 11. The full Asia Pacific Screen Forum programme and screening schedule were also announced. The...

LWFF 2022 Award Nominations

We are delighted to reveal the LWFF 2022 award nominees! Congratulations to all the nominated films, filmmakers, cast and crew! In a challenging year of recovery, you have continued to create and champion your work, and it's been such a privilege to help share these stories with the world. There are some incredible prizes to be won by our filmmakers this year, everything from software and equipment to film school bursaries, so be sure to join us for Closing Night on October 9t...

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