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This holiday season, Illumination, creators of the blockbuster Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets comedies, invites you to take flight into the thrill of the unknown with a funny, feathered family vacation like no other in the action-packed new original comedy, Migration.
The Mallard family is in a bit of rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around the...
Pre-opening event of the 80th Venice International Film Festival
dedicated to Gina Lollobrigida
Double-feature screening:
Portrait of Gina (1958, 27’) by Orson Welles
La provinciale (The Wayward Wife, 1953, 113’) by Mario Soldati presented as world premieres in a restored version
Tuesday August 29th 2023 at 9:00 pm, Sala Darsena (Lido di Venezia)
The Pre-opening event of the 80th Venice International Film Festival (30 August – 9 Septe...
Announcing the International Juries for the Venezia 80 Competition,for Orizzonti and “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film
Photo Laura Poitras - ©Jan Stürmann, Jane Campion - ©Grant Matthews courtesy of Netflix, Mia Hansen-Løve
The International Juries have been selected for the Venezia 80 Competition, chaired by Damien Chazelle, for Orizzonti, chaired by Jonas Carpignano and for the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice ...
The director Liliana Cavani and the actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai will each receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 80th International Film Festival of the Biennale di Venezia (August 30 – September 9, 2023). The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale, upon recommendation of the Director of the Festival, Alberto Barbera.
“I am very happy and grateful to the Biennale di Venezia for this wonderful surprise", said Liliana Cavani...
The Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival is back for another hot summertime festival. From August 15th - 30th, 453 artists from over 50 countries will screen their captivating films at our stunning venues in both San Jose and Mountain View, California. This exciting lineup features 82 highly anticipated World and US premieres—many of which were directed and produced by women and/or members of the Asian, Black, Indian, LatinX, and LGBTQIA+ communities. Known as the festival where art ...
The Toronto International Film Festival is excited to return on September 7–17 and welcome thousands of international and Canadian professionals back to Toronto, where it will once again host the five-day Industry Conference, supported by Ontario Creates and Telefilm. The event serves as a vital platform for business development, lead generation, and networking initiatives, creating space for professionals to connect, learn, and explore the latest trends impacting the industry today. Run...
The opera-inspired film stars Amanda Seyfried with Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine
Special Avant-première screening, in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company, to take place at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on September 8
“First look” image also released
Photo credit: Courtesy of Amanda Matlovich
TIFF is delighted to announce that legendary filmmaker Atom Egoyan returns to the Festiva...
THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995
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In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can ...
2023 Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan runs July 9 – 16, 2023
By Alex Deleon for Filmfestivals.com
Takeshi Kirano at the height of "beatness" in "Violent Cop", 1989
Takeshi Kitano (北野 武, Kitano Takeshi, born January 18, 1947), better known as Beat Takeshi (ビートたけし, Bīto Takeshi) in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker.
The nickname "beat" which he adopted as...
Carl Falkenau, Elliot Murphy and Cian McCarthy. © Zurich Film Festival
These are the finalists of the International Film Music Competition
The International Film Music Competition takes place for the 11th time during the 19th Zurich Film Festival's "Cinema in Concert" gala event. The prestigious event motivated 153 composers from each of the world's continents to enter an original score, which they created for the short film AU REVOIR JERÔME. Presided ...
The films by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Campillo, Raven Jackson, Joachim Lafosse, Noah Pritzker, Cristi Puiu and Martín Rejtman, among others, will be competing for the Golden Shell at the 71st San Sebastián Festival
The American newcomer Raven Jackson will be forming part of the Official Selection with a film developed in the Ikusmira Berriak programme
María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Ca...
After two unusual festival years due to the pandemic, the Berlinale celebrated a successful and glamourous comeback as an on-site event in February 2023. Executive Director Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian evaluated the structure of the Berlinale after the festival. Their goal is to be able to sustainably configure the festival by restructuring the organisation and condensing its programme.
“Like many other areas of society, c...
Following on from the unveiling of the official selection, the names are now being announced of the jurors who will be in Locarno to award the Pardo d’oro and other prizes on the closing day, August 12th.
Photo: ©Locarno Film Festival
The juries will involve voices from around the world, representing some of the most exciting and creative visionaries on the contemporary scene, as this year’s jurors set about deciding the outcomes of the 76th Locarno Film Fe...
The Locarno Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, IFFR and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival have joined forces in a new initiative: Launchpad. Launchpad aims at facilitating the integration of selected emerging film professionals working in international sales, marketing, traditional and online distribution, exhibition and programming, funds and commissions by giving them facilitated access to a network of film festivals in the ...
Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, one of the most popular faces of contemporary cinema, will receive the Leopard Club Award at the 76th Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12). The award ceremony, which will take place on Friday evening, August 4th, in Piazza Grande, will be followed by a talk with the audience at the Forum @Spazio Cinema on Saturday, August 5th, while God afton, herr Wallenberg (Good evening, Mr. Wallenberg, 1990) by Kjell Grede will be screened on August 3rd. Stel...
Today’s press conference in Bern saw the unveiling of the official program for the 76th Locarno Film Festival, together with eagerly awaited competition line-ups and the presentation of the non-competitive sections. British actor Riz Ahmed was also revealed as the recipient of this year’s Excellence Award Davide Campari.
©Photo by Matt Petit/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images
From the 2nd to 12th of August the passion ...
ShorTS International Film Festival
24th edition / Trieste, 1 - 8 July 2023
THE WINNERS OF THE 24th EDITION
MAREMETRAGGIO SECTION
EstEnergy – Gruppo Hera Award / Best short film - 4.000 euro (Jury members: Leonardo Martinelli, Valentina Otormin Dall'Oglio, Yannis Sakaridis)
Serpetatiyen neqewimi by Ramazan Kılıç (Turkey 2023)
«For the bravery of telling this story of a family in a remote village that reflect...
Punto y Raya JUNIOR 2023 educational programme and its culminating event in Poland. The fifth edition of the festival -co-produced by MAD and PyRLAB- took place June 14th - 18th, 2023 at CNP Centrum na Przedmieści, Grotowski Institute, PAN Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapies , Pracownia Małych Instrumentów, and Przejście Dialogu in Wrocław (PL).
PUNTO y RAYA JUNIOR 2023 Summary at CNP
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Only 20 miles away from Dubuque I had to pay a visit to the movie site of Field of Dreams, a film which I have distributed in France during my Sony Days!
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The 15th edition of FIDLab took place on July 6th and 7th.
Out of more than 430 international applications, 10 projects reflecting 14 production countries were part of the 2023 selection of FIDLab, the international co-production platform of FIDMarseille.
Following the presentation of the 10 projects, one-to-one meetings were held from the beginning of the week, connecting the teams of the projects and film professionals from all over the world. Thanks to the great energy an...
Death of Amer Alwan, Iraqi director 1957 - 2023, audience award for «Zaman, the man of reeds» at the FICA in Vesoul.
A message from our friends at FICA:
"We have just learned of the death, on July 4, of Iraqi francophone and francophile director Amer Alwan at the age of 66.
We loved this man who always had a smile despite the hardships of life.
He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, studied film in France. He holds a DEA in Philo...
This superbly crafted biographical documentary by Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszien premiered in North America in a May 2023 screening arranged in New York by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and the Leo Baeck Institute. The focus of the film, writer Walter Kaufmann, passed away at the age of 97 in 2021. Every stage of his life is chronicled and accompanied by his visual participation and recorded commentaries from his texts including childhood and youth; passage as a Jewish child refugee from Germany ...
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Weekly newsletter N°1060 // 1061 Documenting the festivals experience since 1995, reaching over 166 000 subscribers.
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The Mélanie Thierry mystery
Whether in film, theater or television, Mélanie Thierry has been distilling the sweet perfume of mystery for over 20 years, that of an unclassifiable actress with a sharp craft and a career full of side-steps, feline leaps and entrechats, surprises and attempts, in France and the United States.
She made her mark on the silver screen in Giuseppe Tornato...
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