River of Desire by Sérgio Machado (Brazil): World premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, official competition
Review by Lopa Kaul
While films made with the principle of art for art’s sake are all well and good, River of Desire not only gives us a story that engrosses the viewers but also sends a very important message without being too didactic as it also makes the Amazon rainforest a character, a living breathing element that should be protected just as much as the ne...
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Filmfestivals.com will be bringing you updated and live coverage from Jeddah! Stay tuned and connect to our Red Sea International Film Festival Chanel on youtube.
The Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF), in partnership with VOX Cinemas and the MBC GROUP, raised the curtain on the second edition, which will run from 1-10 December in Jeddah, nestled on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. The Festival opened with romantic comedy What's Love Got to Do with It? directed by Shekhar ...
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 ...
Driving Mum by Hilmar Oddsson with Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Tómas Lemarquis, Hera Hilmar... Iceland 2022 1h 52minutes
THE FILM RECEIVED THE BEST FILM AWARD IN TALLINN
Reviewed by Lopa Kaul:
With a Masters in Literature, she has been writing and watching films since an early age and attending film festivals. Now she dabbles in music journalism while dreaming about writing her novel.
World premiere at Tallinn Black ...
The Punishment by Matías Bize Chile, Argentina, 2022 80 minutes
THE FILM RECEIVED THE BEST ACTRESS AWARD IN TALLINN
Reviewed by Lopa Kaul:
With a Masters in Literature, she has been writing and watching films since an early age and attending film festivals. Now she dabbles in music journalism while dreaming about writing her novel.
International premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, official competition Chile, a deep dark forest, riddled with pumas ...
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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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Steven Spielberg © Brian Bowen Smith. Courtesy Amblin Partners
The Homage of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival will be devoted to US-American director, producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg, who will also be presented with an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement. In the scope of the Award Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast, the festival will screen his most recent work, The Fabelmans. A recipient of multiple Academy Awards, Spielberg is one of the world's m...
8th International Documentary Film Festival in Castellorizo "Beyond Borders" 2023 August 20-27, 2023
"Where Documentary Meets History and Culture"
For the third consecutive year, the International Documentary Film Festival in Castellorizo "Beyond Borders" has the pleasure and honor of being under the most honorable state patronage of the Hellenic Republic, that of A.E. of the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou. The patron...
Ruben Östlund has been appointed as the new Honorary President of Göteborg Film Festival. Östlund will be an advisor for the festival and leave his artistic imprint on the festival programme – starting with the upcoming Göteborg Film Festival 2023.
When Ruben Östlund's documentary short Let The Others Deal With Love had its world premiere at Göteborg Film Festival in 2001, a different, provocative and exciting artist...
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...
America’s Highest Honor for a Career in Film to Be Presented at Gala Tribute on June 10, 2023
The American Film Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees announced today that Nicole Kidman will be the recipient of the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, celebrating her career achievements thus far. The award will be presented to Kidman at a Gala Tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 10, 2023. She is the first Australian actor to recei...
The Red Sea International Film Festival today unveiled the jury for the Red Sea Souk Project Market and the Red Sea Work-In-Progress. The juries will award several prizes to eligible films to a total value of $400,000, together with several ‘in kind’ awards from two new Red Sea Souk partners.
The three Project Market Jury members will award six Red Sea Souk awards, granted by the Red Sea Fund. Souk projects are eligible for the Development Award (worth $35,000), the Specia...
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...
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Outstanding Performer of the Year Award
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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...
