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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...
Lineup of special guests confirmed for the IFFR Talks programme, and more as part of RTM and IFFR Pro
Clockwise: Sandra Hüller, Alexander Kluge, Anne Fontaine by Matias Indjic © Unifrance, Marco Bellocchio by Anna Camerlingo
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) presents a Talks programme at its 2024 edition that aims to provide fresh perspectives and profound insights into the world of filmmaking. The s...
It’s awards day! We’re here at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah, for the much-anticipated 2024 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. We’re so excited to share the results as voted by our illustrious jurors, as well as the winners of the audience awards. Join us in congratulating these exceptional artists on their amazing contributions to independent film!
Watch this space; we’re updating this list live as we learn the results.
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Alexander David's project A Mão is the winner of the €10,000 Ventura Prize
Filmmakers Athina Rachel Tsangari, Valérie Massadian, Óscar Vincentelli and Eloy Enciso won the distribution and service awards offered by the partners and collaborators of VENTURA, the new training, development and co-production platform based in Tui, Galicia
The jury, which was made up of the Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues, the Spanish director and producer Llu...
SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD directed by Anna Hints wins FIPADOC GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
WINNERS' LIST FIPADOC 2024
GRAND PRIX
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD
Anna Hints
(Estonia, France, Iceland)
The Grand Prix International Documentary crowns the best international film as yet unreleased in France. The 5,000€ prize...
The short film jury awards of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival were announced during the Shorts Awards Party in Park City.
The Festival, which kicked off on January 18 and runs through January 28 in person and across the country online, has long been known as the premiere showcase of short filmmaking talent. The Short Film Grand Jury Prize, awarded to one film in the program of 53 shorts selected from 12,098 submissions, went to The Masterpiece, directed and written by Alex...
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Promotion action for Utah beloved movie Napoleon Dynamite! The film which screened at Sundance 20 years ago returns to SFF 2024 with Glen Powell speaking in a panel at Park City, Utah. Main Street publicity fun for Napoleon Dynamite film involved fuzzy big hair, goofiness and tater tots from a nearby food truck all part of the zaniness!
By James Nelson
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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announces “Oscars Season at the Academy Museum,” running January 28-March 31, which invites the public to celebrate the 96th Oscars® and immerse themselves in Academy Awards® history through rich and expansive one-of-a-kind Oscar®-centered events and activities.
“Oscars Season” will see the Academy Museum campus activated for visitors to experience Oscar-winning film screenings, family workshops, in-gallery tours, O...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
There’s a reason Poor Things starring Best Oscar Actress nom Emma Stone with 11 Oscar nods charts so high among big movies, Oppenheimer with 13 nods, Barbie with eight, and Killers of the Flower Moon at 10 nominations. After #metoo and #timesup, we are officially in the Post-Ingenue Era in Hollywood. Gone is the unsophisticated often preyed-upon female lead. And this is likely why Barbie’s Margot Robbie missed the Best Actress cut th...
The Oscar nominations 2024 are in for the 96th Academy Awards.You can watch the full Oscars 2024 nominations announcement livestream on Oscar.com. The Oscars 2024 will air LIVE SUNDAY MARCH 10 on ABC and will be televised live in more than 200 territories worldwide.
Read on for the complete Oscar nominations 2024 list.
Best picture
"American Fiction"
"Anatomy of a Fall"
"Barbie"
"The H...
The winners from the 81st annual ceremony, hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Los Angeles
Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture, Drama
WINNER
Oppenheimer
Anatomy of a Fall
Anatomie d'une chute (original title)
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Richard Linklater revisits his hometown to explore its diverse inhabitants, painting a vibrant portrait that encapsulates the criminal justice system of Texas.
Interviewed in Park City by James Nelson
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Best film – drama
Oppenheimer – WINNER
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Past Lives
The Zone of Interest
Anatomy of a Fall
Best female actor in a film – drama
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon – WINNER
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Annette Bening, Nyad
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla
Best film – musical or comedy
Barbie
Poor Things – WINNER
American Fiction
The Holdove...
The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 15, 2024 with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, an Irish-Belgian production. Directed by Tim Mielants from a screenplay by Enda Walsh, the international cast includes Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson. Small Things Like These will screen in Competition.
The film is based on the book by the award-winning Irish writer Claire Keegan (who also wrote...
20 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears, among them two first features as well as two documentary forms. 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.
“We are particularly proud of this year’s selection which achieves the best possible balance between auteurs we cherish and admire and powerful ...
By Emmanuel Itier
I remember meeting Peter H. Gilmore, the high priest of the Church of Satan when I was doing a documentary about the notion of “God”. I had to admit I was quite puzzled by this intriguing gentleman and his approach of satanism which goes against the notion of scarifying children on the alter or killing a virgin. Furthermore, I learned that their approach was more about rebelling against the politically correct approach of life in general. Remember that Sa...
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Christine Camdessus (general delegate) with Anne Georget (president) and Maider Arosteguy Mayor of Biarritz.
The festival kicked off the 6th edition this friday evening to a full house at the magnificent Theatre de "La Gare du Midi", the opening film was preceded by a 15 minute overview of the festival program and its jury members by Christine Camdessus (FIPADOC General Delegate) and Anne Georget (FIPADOC President), and Maider Arosteguy (Mayor of Biarritz) Onstage ...
Thelma is a 2024 American comedy film written and directed by Josh Margolin. It stars June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg, and Malcolm McDowell. It had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2024.
Zoë Worth (producer) spoke in Park City with filmfestivals.com James Nelson ahead of it s film premiere.
The Sundance Film Festival (40th edition) takes place from January 18–28 2024.
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Welcome to day one of the Festival! We’re starting off with some highly-anticipated feature film premieres, such as Freaky Tales, Thelma, Stress Positions, Girls State, and I Saw The TV Glow. Be on the lookout for second screenings in person and online later in the Festival. Right now limited tickets are still available for Girls State, Eno, LOLLA: THE STORY OF LOLLAPALOOZA, Ibelin, Sujo, and Gaucho Gaucho. Don’t wait!&...
12 Projects to Be Developed at Annual January Screenwriters Lab in Utah
8 Projects to Take Part in March Online Screenwriters Intensive
Park City, UT, January 12, 2024 – Sundance Institute announced today the fellows selected for its 2024 Screenwriters Lab and Screenwriters Intensive programs, which provide emerging artists with a creative and nurturing space to develop their first and second independent features. Out of over&nbs...
2024 Sundance Film Festival’s 40th Edition Kicks Off On Thursday January 18
The nonprofit Sundance Institute is commemorating the four decades of extraordinary independ...
On January 18 Sundance festival is kicking off the 2024 Festival edition, honoring Christopher Nolan with the first-ever Sundance Institute Trailblazer Award, Kristen Stewart with the Sundance Institute Visionary Award, Celine Song and Maite Alberdi with Sundance Institute Vanguard Awards Presented by Acura, and Pat Mitchell with the Sundance Institute Vanguard Award for Philanthropy.
Honorees
Sundance Institute Trailblazer Award – Christopher Nolan
Christophe...
