Storytellers have a unique and important role to play in driving the culture change needed to increase our care and respect for the natural world and break down the systemic and individual barriers to outdoor access. To support the production and impact of outstanding short films on the theme of nature connection, The Redford Center and Mountainfilm are co-presenting a pitch event at the 2024 Telluride Mountainfilm Festival in partnership with IF/Then Shorts.
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The entry period starts today on 1 February only on Filmfreeway and it will be open until 17 June!
The festival will take place from 15 to 20 October 2024 in Szolnok, the home of culture, where the TISZApART Cinema will continue to welcome film lovers!
Every year we aim to promote production design, scientific and fine art films (or films that are made using some of the tools of fine arts), young filmmakers and active professionals, to bring more creative ideas and u...
On January 22, 2024 the Executive Director Mariette Rissenbeek and the Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian provided an outlook for the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Brandon Vlieghe in L’Empire (The Empire) by Bruno Dumont © Tessalit Productions
Competition
20 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears, among them two first features as well as two documentaries. Productions from 30 countries are represented. 19 films are world premieres. Six films were directed or co-directed by women. Nine filmmakers have been at the festival before, six in Competition.
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In just three weeks, Berlin's Avant Première 2024 will showcase over 500 music and dance films. Attendees can expect exclusive screenings, star-studded events, and unique networking opportunities at the global performing arts fair.
Every year in mid-February, Berlin rolls out its red carpets, and transforms into the capital of media and film. A significant contributor to the city's cinematic fervour is Avant Première, the international marketplace and networking ...
The complete film programme and a large cast of guests for Berlin Critics’ Week 2024 are now online, with the final list of attendees as well as a detailed schedule for the opening conference on February 14 to be announced in the coming days. This year, our film screenings and debates will take place from February 15–22.
Tickets are now on sale for all film and debate programmes of the Berlin Critics’ Week. Find our ticket presales on the website of ...
Mzia Arabuli in Levan Akin’s Crossing © Haydar Tastan
Panorama
The 2024 Panorama: Bridges Between Lived Experiences and Cinematic Possibilities
Levan Akin’s film Crossing is opening the 2024 Panorama. The programme comprises 31 titles from 36 countries featuring, among other things, a flourishing documentary cinema, alternative filmic realities and sex as liberation from heteronormativity. It includes new works by André Téchiné, Thomas Arslan...
Berlinale Goes Kiez im City Kino Wedding © Peter Kreibich 2020
Hardly any other city has as many arthouse cinemas as Berlin does. In their diversity, they provide a unique bounty of film programming and a wide range of events treating film-cultural and socio-political subject matter. The individual cinemas are also as different from one another as their programmes are. As spaces for community and discourse, they not only serve as special meeting places for film l...
Ivan Peric in Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing by Travis Wilkerson © Travis Wilkerson
Encounters
The competitive section Encounters comprises 15 films, all of which are world premieres. There are two first features plus one debut of a documentary form.17 countries are represented. Six films were directed by women.
“Each film selected in Encounters challenges the predetermined categories with which we evaluate ...
The Siren von Sepideh Farsi © Grandfilm
Berlinale Spotlight: Panorama
With its specially curated programmes, the Berlinale has been present around the world for many years. The Berlinale Spotlight format extends the festival period.
Shortly before the start of the 74th Berlinale, the next Berlinale Spotlight will take place on Tuesday, 13 February 2024, at the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation in Berlin. La Sirène b...
Three Films Have Been Added to the Berlinale Special Programme.
Omar Sy in The Strangers’ Case by Brandt Andersen © Philistine Films
Three more films have been invited to the Berlinale Special programme: two mid-length films Chime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and August My Heaven by Riho Kudo as Berlinale Special and The Strangers’ Case by Brandt Andersen as a Berlinale Special Gala.
In Chime, Tashiro, a student at...
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Welcome to the 1st annual B!TCHFEST: An International Women’s & LGBTQIA+ Film Festival & Screenplay Contest with a groundbreaking in-person event for both Filmmakers and Screenwriters in the heart of Los Angeles. At B!tchFest we’re not just breaking glass ceilings; we’re shatterin
Welcome to the 1st annual B!TCHFEST: An International Women’s & LGBTQIA+ Film Festival & Screenplay Contest with a groundbreaking in-person event for both Filmmakers and Screenwriters in the heart of Los Angeles. At B!tchFest we’re not just breaking glass ceilings; we’re shattering them into a million pieces by unleashing the Power of Female and LGBTQIA+ Voices in Film and Television!
Get ready for a cinematic celebration that&rsqu...
Animated shorts of all kind and techniques are eligible for Fantoche’s 2024 competitions if they’ve been completed after 31 December 2022 and last no longer than 40 minutes. Submission is free of charge and will close on 12 May 2024. You can submit via FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/Fantoche
The international show of animation film has become one of the world’s most prominent animation festivals and is the largest cultural event in Switzerland that is devoted exclu...
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La Luna by M. Raihan Halim will close the festival, as the first Talks lineup is unveiled featuring Marco Bellocchio and Anne Fontaine
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) revealed the films selected for the Tiger, Big Screen and Tiger Short competitions at the festival’s 53rd edition.
Head South by Jonathan Oglivie opened the festival on Thursday 25 January. The film bringing the festival to a close is now a...
The "Early Bird Deadline" for film submissions in the 2024 season ends on February 1st! We urge all filmmakers to submit their work as early as possible—just a few days left until the deadline. Every film that wins an award at our film festival receives a jury statement, gets screened in front of the audience at the cinema, and their interview is printed in our catalog alongside the jury statement, ensuring visibility for posterity! Join us for this exciting and beautiful event a...
RSIFF, 23, 13: Get Lodged in the Red Sea Labs, interact with agents and reagents and MAKE YOUR FILM!
The Red Sea Labs announced the open call for the 5th edition of The Lodge program. A long-term residency programme, in collaboration with Torino FilmLab, and sponsored by Film AlUla, offering an intensive creative and professional film development experience. AlUla is a happening city. Hollywood productions shot in AlUla include the Gerard Butler-led action-thriller Kandahar, directed by Ric R...
Gerald Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh, Mimi Kim, Kenny Griswold, Jeff Friedl, Mark Mothersbaugh and Josh Hager
At the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, DEVO Celebrated 50 Years of De-Evolution with a special dinner at ChefDance Social, presented by Space Perspective and hosted by Mimi Kim and Kenny Griswold. Guests such as Paul Oakenfeld and Joel Michaely joined the band for a four course meal prior to their performance at The Marquis Park City in honor of thei...
Ori Yardeni
Global filmmaker Ori Yardeni's new feature film The Man Who Saved the Internet with a Sunflower, the true story of American entrepreneur Rob Ryan, is set to embark on its global film festival run. The film recounts the dramatic story of Rob Ryan, the ultimate entrepreneur, who saved the Internet from collapsing in the 1990s, transformed the lives of all of us in every field, and today is trying to save the Internet from itself.
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The outstanding documentary Inheritance had its world premiere in January at the 2024 edition of Slamdance Film Festival. Produced and directed by Matt Moyer and Ann Toensing Set, Inheritance set itself apart from many issue oriented documentaries on middle and upper middle-class problems with frequent academic elucidations. Inheritance has no implicit appeals for funds to take on the problems depicted nor do producers call for political action. Inheritance takes a refreshingly different...
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The Ray theater empties after movie screenings Movie fans leave The Ray theater after seeing one of the featured films at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. by James Nelson
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Entertainment Oxygen (eo), the one-stop shop for indie film festivals, filmmakers and content creators, today unveiled eoFlix, its comprehensive festival streaming and networking platform, the announcement was made today by founder/ceo Apple TungFong.
“eoFlix stands at the forefront of the industry, offering an unmatched, seamless blend of networking, dynamic live and online streaming, empowered self-distribution avenues, robust monetization strategies, and muc...
RSIFF, 12: Bakhtawar Mazhar: In Flames of Glory
A day before the awards were announced, declaring In Flames the best film, at the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF), I was face–to-face with Bakhtawar Mazhar, one of the protagonists of In Flames, her feature debut, a film that had made a tremendous impression on me. This, a face-to-face with a Pakistani actress, had never happened before, and I was not going to let this opportunity go by. We got into a car, and started talking.
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