Nominations for the 2025 German Cinema New Talent Award
This year, the Munich International Film Festival will again present the German Cinema New Talent Award in four categories: directing, production, screenplay, and acting. These awards are among the most coveted among young German filmmakers, as a sponsorship award can help launch a promising career. This year, the jury is comprised of Liliane Amuat (actress), Erol Afşin (director and actor), and Jan-Ole Gerster (film directo...
Cannes Lions honours Adobe Chair and CEO Shantanu Narayen as inaugural Creative Champion of the Year
New Award recognises Narayen’s dedication to enabling creativity in its many forms and driving the creative agenda across industries and around the globe
13 May 2025 - The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced that Shantanu Narayen, Chair and CEO, Adobe, will be honoured as its inaugural Creative Champion of the Year. The new honouree Award is given to individu...
I still remember his impressive debut film film I watched in Venice. He made his feature directorial debut in 2015 with The Childhood of a Leader at the Venice Film Festival.
His second feature film, Vox Lux was hailed by critics after it premiered in competition at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, London Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival.
His recent original feature The Brutalist recently won Brady Best Picture and Best Director at the Golden Globes.
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I'm very excited to announce American actress Reese Witherspoon speaking at Cannes Lions on Wednesday 18.06 at 12:45 pm at the Debussy Theatre about her new initiative empowering women, especially young women.
Hello Sunshine is on a mission to change the narrative for women. Especially for girls and young women who don't feel represented by brands, their needs are not understood.
For the first time, media visionary and founder Reese Witherspoon speaks about a new initiative and brand...
Coming up - Cannes Lions -Live your visions
The Cannes International Film Festival just finished, and now again only 3 weeks later Cannes is becoming once again the mekkha for talents from all over the world attending THE ultimate market for creativity - CANNES LIONS!
What to expect?
Certainly more buzz, more professionals, more future focused technologies and all major companies combining entertainment and software applications. Orginally a hub for the advert...
The Jury of the Immersive Competition of the 78th Festival de Cannes presented today the Best Immersive Work Award to From Dust, created by Michel van der Aa, recognizing a creation that pushed the boundaries of storytelling, art space, and audience engagement.
The Jury, chaired by French director Luc Jacquet included American musician, director and writer Laurie Anderson, French author and performer Tania de Montaigne, British director, screenwriter, ...
The very first edition of the global festival of film and artificial intelligence, the WORLD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FILM FESTIVAL, connected to the WORLD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CANNES FESTIVAL (same organizers but different objectives, here at the WAIFF the focus is enterly on films where AI is used as a tool) took place in Nice last Friday and Saturday 11-12.04. Very well organised by producer Sarah Lelouch and David Defendi, CEO Genario, artistic director Julien Raout and festival director J...
I met Björn just recently on March 23 at the closing party of Filmfest Bremen. The event took place at the Institut Français, film professionals where gathering and celebrating their films, discussions going on about upcoming projects and most surely about next festival to attend. And then I saw, no first I heard the piano, and looked for the guy who interrupted our so intellectual conversations. This is when I first acknowledge Björn. He was masterfully improvising on the pia...
The annual awards of Filmfest Bremen were presented at the Kleines Haus of Theater Bremen on March 23. With 793 submitted short, medium-length, and feature films from 30 countries in 24 languages, the festival received an impressive international response. Among them were 31 debut films, highlighting the festival’s strong commitment to emerging talent. In total, prize money of 52,000 euros was awarded. The festive awards matinée was hosted by the festival directors Matthias Gr...
Diversity at the Oscars and in general in the film industry has become a key to success. The celebration of diversity takes place in Berlin a week after the Berlinale on the last day of the ITB. The Diversity Gala, organised by Tomontour is celebrating Diversity & Inclusion during the ITB including the award ceremony of the ITB LGBTQ+ Tourism Award & LGBTQ+ Pioneer Awardo. For the third time, ITB trade and media visitors, exhibitors, tourism professionals & friends from around the wo...
The opening of 10th edition of Filmfest Bremen on the 19.03 in my hometown Bremen was a big success. The red carpet was rolled out for a dammed good reason: Stephen Frears and Hugh Grant were in town.
The grand British director was receiving the "Golden Pug-Goldener Mops". Now pugs are known for being sociable and gentle companion dogs. The American Kennel Club describes the breed's personality as "even-tempered and charming". Charme was definetly the motto of th...
She will be shooting next with German film director Ayse Polat (after receiving the Bavarian Film Award for her film "Im toten Winkel" Polat was awarded in Berlin by the German Film Critics Association for the best screeplay), just completed shooting for "Lady Nazca" in Peru, is the leading actress in "Hysteria" by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay (world premiere at Berlinale in Panorama) and has reached season 3 with the succesful series "The emperess&q...
While Radu Jude's new film Kontinental '25 was part of the main competition and later won the Silver Bear for best screenplay and Radu Muntean was on the jury for the best European Shooting Star, the Romanian presence at the 75th edition was not limited to this.
Further Romanian film makers attended the EFM 13-19.02 under the slogan "Time to Go East: Come see the Romanians"
17 Romanian companies attended once again the Berlinale under the umbrella of Creativ...
Silver Bear for Best Screenplay for screenwriter-director Radu Jude and an unexpected succes for the social satire Kontinental ’25 which has sold many European territories after world premiering at Berlinale just a week ago.
Representatives of the Romanian production company Saga Film told FNE that Luxbox sold Kontinental '25 to 21 countries including France (to Météore Films); Italy (I Wonder Pictures); Portugal (Films4you); Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denma...
Baden-Württemberg's State Secretary for Culture Arne Braun and MFG CEO Carl Bergengruen awarded Johannes Naber, member of the German "Bundesverband Regie" with the Thomas Strittmatter Prize 2025 at the festive award ceremony which took place on the 19.02 at the Baden-Württemberg State Representation which is located within a 15 min walking distance from the Berlinale Film Palast. Film director Michael Chauvistré, on the board of "Bundesverband Regie" cong...
While Davos and the World Economic Forum was in the middle of attention January 20-24, attracting the showbiz besides politicians, business people, lobbyists and FinTech enthusiasts like the Swiss founders of the "House of Trust" or activists like Stephanie zu Guttenberg and Fawzia Koofi, who were attending the high profile conference of the "World Woman Foundation" chaired by it's American president Rupa Dash, the focus was for the following 2 days on Munich.
The ...
