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It was with an Austrian film ‘‘Alma and Oskar’’ directed by Dieter Berner that 53rd International Film Festival of India 2022 got off to a good start. It is a film about one of the greatest expressionist artists of the 20th century Oskar Kokoschka who dominated the world of painting in Austria during 1900s. In the history of IFFI, it was for the first time that an Austrian film was chosen as the opening film. Apart from the director Dieter Berner, the film’s produ...
On the heels of a very successful world premiere at the Jersey Short Film Festival in early July, superhero comedy short S.Q.U.A.D. is taking the global festival circuit by storm, being named an official selection at the Urban Arts Festival in Dallas, Milan Shorts Film Festival in Italy, and Paris International Short Festival in France. The film, directed by Ethan Cyr, Dakota Holmes-Dodge, and Carlos Lavezzari, explores the iss...
The annual seven-day event returns November 13 – 19, 2023; there are no entry fees, and artists worldwide are invited to submit through September 22, 2023. The accordi @ DISACCORDI – International short film festival, since 2000 one of Italy’s leading short film events packed with screenings, exhibits, workshops, and entertainment, returns November 13 – 19, 2023. accordi @ DISACCORDI has announced that submissions are now being accepted. The accordi @ DISA...
The 2023 Nihilist International Film Festival announced that it is looking for short videos for this year’s program. Festival Director Elisha Shapiro says, “It’s the Nihilist Film Festival for god’s sake. Herisy, tastelessness, offensiveness…you get the idea. We’re looking for that film other festival are afraid of.” If you are a filmmaker who wants to be part of the fun, Shapiro hopes you will send your entry to ...
Relive the highlights of the 70th Sydney Film Festival which took over Sydney screens from June 7 - 18, 2023. 12 days, nearly 250 films, hundreds of filmmakers guests and a red carpet feeling that stretched all over Sydney. The 70th Sydney Film Festival was the ultimate celebration of cinema in 2023. Relive the highlights from the opening night film The New Boy, to our closing night award ceremony and screening of Indiana Jones and the Dial o...
Call for entries: The 9th season of the Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival is now accepting entries! A celebration of the values of Southern California and the future of film from around the world, reflecting the diversity of our region. The Hollywood International Film Festival will screen independent films with an emphasis on promoting female and culturally diverse voices. Top films and short films will be considered by Hollywood professionals at representation and produc...
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani, Review: All rhyme, no reason When a film tries too hard to please too many viewers, it shows. When it has too many stars, including stars of yesteryear, predictably, its length grows. When the maker goes back three generations and sets one chunk of the story in 1978, the public knows. When a layman at a bus-stop on a rainy night tells you lots about a film he has not seen because, perhaps, he has seen the trailer and read stuff about the movie, you know that&rs...
The Red Sea Fund has partnered with Film AlUla to offer a production grant for filmmakers with projects set in the versatile and diverse landscape of AlUla. Film AlUla is driving the development of the film and TV industry in AlUla, located in northwest Arabia, and committed to championing talent from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The partnership will help develop a strong ecosystem in Saudi while providing a platform that empowers a visionary approach amongst regiona...
RED SEA SOUK CALL FOR PROJECT MARKET AND WIP SHOWCASE IS OPEN APPLY HERE Deadline for Applications: August 18, 2023 The Red Sea Souk will take place at the Ritz Carlton in Jeddah, December 2—5 alongside the Red Sea International Film Festival. The Call is reserved solely for projects and films by directors of Arab or African nationality/origin. The Project Market will present a selection of ten to twelve projects in development or in production. The WIP Showcase will pr...
The results are in. This year was a groundbreaking year for alternative cinema in the entertainment capital of the world. “Everything to Entertain You: The Story of Video Headquarters”, a feature documentary film directed by Brantley Palmer, swept honors at this year’s festival, capturing Best Film, Director and Documentary. The film, a story about a nostalgic look at a video store that closed in 2015, made a major statement at this year’s festival. It was the film&rsq...
GERMAN CINEMA NEW TALENT AWARD AT 40th FILMFEST MÜNCHEN 2023 On Friday, talented German newcomers were honored with the coveted German Cinema New Talent Award. The jury — consisting of actress Friedrich Mücke, director and actress Sheri Hagen, and director Sophie Linnenbaum — honored Sylvie Michel as best director for her film “More Than Strangers”. Uschi Feldges grabbed the award in the category of best producer for her drama “Empty Nets”. Merle Gr...
2023 MAUI FILM FESTIVAL STARDUST CINEMA AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS! 2023 MAUI FILM FESTIVAL SPEED-OF-LIGHT VIRTUAL CINEMA AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED SOON DON’T FORGET ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT TO WATCH 15 IMPORTANT FEATURE FILMS AND 50 BEAUTIFULLY CURATED SHORT FILMS Visit: https://www.mauifilmfestival.com ...
Moreetsi Gabang (Botswana) - Winner of NEFTI Africa Competition with African Bank at Durban FilmMart Judges Acclaimed Actress Vivica A Fox, Academy and Tony Award winning producer Bruce Cohen, and President of Post Production 21st Century Fox/Disney Ted Gagliano – as well as the previous competition winner - Nahom Abraham (Eritrea) Selected Moreetsi Gabang (Botswana) Competition Winner Receives $5000 Audience Viewers Choice Chosen By The Event & Online Attendee...
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 moment we've been waiting for is here! Visit our website today to see which films have been nominated in our 15 categories. As always we'll also be giving the Audience Choice Award to one feature and one short film.This year we have added the 'Un-produced script' award, where the winner will get a pitch meeting with an industry producer of their choice, courtesy of STAGE32! Now is a great time to look through the categories to help you decide which films you'd...
Aly Yeganeh winner enjoying hi Best Ensemble Cast Trophy for Sibel's Silence with Festival Director Susie Gorell Best Feature: “Pinball: The Man that Saved the Game” Best Documentary: “Labeled: The Missing, the Murdered and the Forgotten” Best Short I: “Hedgehog” Best Short II: “Mayfly” Best Cast Ensemble: “Sibel’s Silence” ...
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...
DD. Photo by Laurent KOFFEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Darren Darnborough is a British actor, host & director based in Los Angeles. His TV work includes the hit shows “True Blood”, “2 Broke Girls” and “Roots” and film work includes “Abruptio”, “20Ft Below” and “Stefano Formaggio”. He was trained in London, UK where he worked as an actor on stage and television, before relocating to Hollywood. You'...
Actor and director Kassem Istanbouli has been awarded by UNESCO with the 2023 Sharjah Award for Arab Culture and Arts, recognizing his prominent contribution to Arab culture. The international committee of experts in the fields of culture and arts has chosen the work of Kassem Istanbouli, founder of the Lebanese National Theatre, from many nominations for his contribution to the creation of an independent culture and arts net in Lebanon, including the restoration of abandoned cinem...
When I volunteered at a shelter for runaway teens, I was shocked by how many of them were convinced that their traffickers loved them, and that they would come back to rescue them. The whole idea of the Stockholm syndrome type of relationship with a captor has always intrigued me. I was inspired to write Maya after hearing many stories from survivors about the Stockholm type relationships they had with their traffickers. In talking to detectives on trafficking task forces, they noted that it i...
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Home of the NYC Indie Awards the festival aims to discover the Artist Filmmaker, showcasing them to the entertainment industry and the NYC public. All NYCIndieFF screenings take place in the historic center of NYC, Time Square which is the perfect home for an event geared toward creating incredible opportunities for independent voices.
NYCIndieFF honors the Best in Category which includes Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Narrative, Best Super Short, Best Covid Diaries, as well as Best Director and Best Screenplay.
New York City Independent Film Festival (NYCIndieFF) will hold a physical festival this year. We will celebrate the Independent Filmmaker, documentaries, short and feature-length films and animation. Whether a submission is comedic, dramatic, or something in between, The NYCIndieFF is eager to embrace fresh ideas and storytelling.
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The Chelsea Film Festival (CFF) has been selected in the "TOP 10 BEST FILM FESTIVAL IN NORTH AMERICA" (#6) by USA Today in 2019 among 19 other film festivals in the USA.
CFF is an organization dedicated to supporting films and the artists who create them by providing a creative forum for exchange and discovery with the public.
The Festival attracts filmmakers, artists and audience members from across North America and around the globe. It premieres independent feature-length, documentaries and short films with a Global Focus.
Chelsea Film Festival aims to raise an awareness about foreign independent films and discover upcoming talents.
The Chelsea Film Festival is an international film platform for world lovers.
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Maya by Julia Verdin
USA 2023 1hour 44 minutes written and directed by Jukia Verdin
Teenage Maya is raised in a household stricken by her father’s abandonment.
Maya makes the wrong encounter on social media: Ray encourages Maya to run away from home...and ends up being set up for appointments with Ray’s “clients” until Police finds her. Can Maya's mother help her get back on her feet, or will Maya be forever lost to the dark world she has fallen prey to?
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Through the real-life experience of several transgender youth and expert interviews, this docudrama provides an uncensored look into the forces behind this movement and reveals untold stories you have never heard.
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Some who took vaccine with the noblest of intentions experienced unexpected debilitating aftereffects. Instead of compassion, they were met with skepticism; instead of being helped they were shunned; instead of being heard, they were silenced. Join us as we bring their stories out of the shadows so they can be heard and seen and no longer alone.
And yet nobody's coming to the rescue of truth?
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France 93 minutes
August 2014. ISIS invades the city of Sinjar, home to a religious minority called the Yazidis, in the north west of Irak.
Sibel, a 13-year-old girl, witnesses the slaughter of her entire family.
Alongside thousands of other women and young girls from her community, she is then kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery.
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5 minutes 40 - USA July 2022
An overly confident cop’s first day on the job gets interesting as he navigates unfamiliar territories and people.
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A brother-sister assassin duo become part of a scheme much bigger than them, when a culture vulture-ing client calls an audible.
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2023 USA 96 minutes
Rear View Cataclysm is the story of two brothers and an ex-girlfriend who try to recapture the love and passion and of their past. Edison is trapped in a toxic marriage and invites down-on-his-luck brother, Blake (Jason Liebrecht), to a popular local music festival. Broke and depressed, Blake agrees, not realizing that Edison has also invited Mazie (Caroline Ducey), his ex-girlfriend. No one can predict the course of desire, reconciliation and regret that unfolds. Set against the barren landscapes of rural Texas and featuring the hypnotic sounds of Grouper and Govinda along with Punk Rock Bands Zounds and The Jesus Lizard, Rear View Cataclysm is a feast for the heart and senses.
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December 2022, USA 2 hours 4 minutes
Gotham tells the true story of what happened in New York City during the twenty years from 1993 to 2013. How did a city with over 2200 murders, 93,000 violent robberies and 147,000 car thefts in 1990 become the capitol of the world a mere handful of years later? This feature documentary explores what happened during these decades, told by the people who did the hard work, some at great personal and professional cost.
From Fear City to the City of Dreams. Hear about the greatest American turnaround story from the people who made it happen.
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ABSOLUTION by Lauren Spohn
Short film by Lauren Spohn (UK: 6 minutes 24 seconds 2022)
Labelled BEST FOR FESTS by curator Bruno Chatelin former head of Fox and Sony in France, filmfestivals.com founder and editor
"I am in a dark forest and something is chasing after me, some sort of creature that reeks fire or something: one part of me wants to run but I cannot move my legs? I am totally paralysed..."
"One last thing"he said : "it's not your fault !"
A man sees his psychiatrist for help with a difficult hidden family secret. The conversation takes a sinister turn as the psychiatrist pushes deeper into the man’s past. All is not what it seems:
Can he take the tension, will you?
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Retrouvez en images les moments forts de cette magnifique 51e édition : Depuis 1973, le Festival La Rochelle Cinéma (Fema) est une grande fête du cinéma, au début de l’été, avec un public nombreux et fidèle, et des films d’hier et d’aujourd’hui venus du monde entier. ...
Depuis 50 ans, la Coupe Icare accueille les pilotes et le grand public du monde entier pour une immense fête populaire autour du vol libre et des sports aériens. De nombreux rendez-vous festifs, oniriques ou contemplatifs attendent les 90 000 visiteurs. Des shows aériens, des concerts, des spectacles de rue, le ballet de dizaines de montgolfières, le fameux concours de vol déguisé, un grand bal costumé pour tous, des ateliers & animations pou...
Retrouvez tout le programme : https://www.filminsulaire.com/ Il y a 10 ans exactement, en 2013, le Fifig vous emmenait à la découverte de l'Irlande. Cette année, pour la 22e édition, nous avons eu l'envie de vous faire voyager à nouveau en terres celtiques, sur celles de l'Écosse et de ses îles, une culture qui nous ressemble d'une certaine manière et qui garde pourtant aussi toute sa singularité. L’Écosse possède...
L'acteur et réalisateur Kassem Istanbouli a reçu de l'UNESCO le prix Sharjah 2023 pour la culture et les arts arabes, reconnaissant sa contribution importante à la culture arabe. Le comité international d'experts dans les domaines de la culture et des arts a choisi le travail de Kassem Istanbouli, fondateur du Théâtre National Libanais, parmi de nombreuses nominations pour sa contribution à ...
Après le succès du Week-end du film politique de l’Assemblée nationale, qui a eu lieu au printemps 2023 à l’initiative de la Présidente Yaël Braun-Pivet, l’Assemblée nationale organisera une seconde édition du Week-end du film politique fin avril 2024. A cette occasion, la Présidente Yaël Braun-Pivet lance un Prix du court métrage politiqu...
Les artistes de l’Adami expriment leur entière solidarité aux 160 000 actrices et acteurs en grève aux Etats-Unis. Ce combat, inédit depuis les années 60, est aussi celui des artistes français. La question du partage de la valeur dans le streaming reste au cœur des inquiétudes et des incompréhensions des actrices et des acteurs. Alors que le secteur de la production et de la diffusion capte une richesse s...
Nous sommes très fiers des bonnes relations et des partenariats signé avec les plus grands festivals et marchés : Venice Production Bridge, FestForums Santa Barbara, AFM, Animaze, Tallinn Black Night International Film Festival, Houston WorldFest, Fantasporto, et Cannes Market bien entendu et beaucoup d'autres. Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir grace à ces parteneriats pouvoir apporter news et dailies à ...
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