The feature film Tardes de soledad (Spain-France-Portugal), directed by Albert Serra, has bagged the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival's 72nd edition, whose official jury gave the Silver Shell for Best Director ex aequo to debutants Laura Carreira and Pedro Martín Calero for their respective work in On Falling (UK-Portugal) and El llanto / The Wailing (Spain-Argentina-France).
The Silver Shell for Best Leading Perf...
Variety will honor Amy Poehler with the Variety Legend & Groundbreaker Award at the Newport Beach Festival on Sunday, October 20. The award is reserved for those who have broken barriers in the industry and withstood the test of time. Poehler will accept the honor for her career achievements, including the recent success of “Inside Out 2.”
Reprising her role as the voice of Joy in “Inside Out 2,” Poehler served as a leader of the emotions inside Ril...
14TH ANNUAL CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL HONORS MARCIA GAY HARDEN AND EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI AT THE LEGENDARY CATALINA CASINO
Notable Attendees: Matt Walsh, Aleksa Palladino, Necar Zadegan, GaTa, Nolan Gould, Amy Tsang
The 14th annual Catalina Film Festival celebrated two extraordinary women making waves and impacting change, Saturday, September 28, 2024 at the historic Avalon Theatre at the Catalina Casino: Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden and actress/philan...
20th Anniversary screening of Gavin O’Connor’s Miracle opens the film festival
Film festival award winners on the inaugural schedule include
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s A New Kind of Wilderness Zoë Eisenberg’s Chaperone, Alison Tavel’s Resynator, and Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina
The inaugural Boise Film Festival will make its debut October 10-13 with a 20th Anniversary screening of Gavin O’Connor’s tale of the 1980 U....
46th FESTIVAL DES 3 CONTINENTS
THE MAIN OUTLINES OF THE PROGRAMME REVEALED: INDIA AND HONG KONG IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The Festival des 3 Continents unveils today the main outlines of its 2024 programme and opens the sale of festival Passes and accreditations.
The 46th edition of the Festival des 3 Continents will be held from 15 to 23 November 2024 in Nantes and its partner cinemas across the Loire-Atlantique territory.
A wide range of rare and previously unrelea...
The Nordic Center in America
The 7th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF) presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America is back November 6-17, 2024, with a mix of in-person and virtual screenings of the best new films from the Baltic region. From November 6-10, festival-goers can enjoy screenings and events at Scandinavia House in New York. For those across the U.S., virtual screenings of six of the films will be available to...
I'm delighted to announce today the appointment of Justin Martyniuk as the Festival’s new Head of Programs, and Lisa Kitching as Head of Industry and Special Projects.
After an extensive search for our new Head Of Programs, we’re delighted to appoint Justin Martyniuk from within our own ranks. He has been a core member of the SFF programming team for several years, working closely alongside outgoing Head of Programs, Jenny ...
© Marine Bigourie, 2024
Cette année nous avons sélectionné 44 films parmi plus de 1500 reçus pour la compétition internationale. Les films sélectionnés seront présentés à travers six séances, du jeudi 17 au samedi 19 octobre au Cinéma Le Grand Action.
Chaque année le Festival récompense les films sélectionnés lors d'une délibération d...
The International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg will officially open on 7 November with the German premiere of ›Sharp Corner‹, an absorbing psychodrama starring Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders, in which a man’s midlife crisis spirals out of control
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“Together, let’s celebrate the power of cinema to inspire and bring us closer as a diverse, democratic society”. Those are the words of the patron of this years’ edition of the European Arthouse Cinema Day, the First Vice-President of the European Parliament Sabine Verheyen in her video message inviting cinemas to join the day and highlighting the values of the event.
Cinema stands for #Democracy
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visibility and a tribute to european films in the arab world
A total of 22 European films, including nine Oscar submissions to be considered for Best International Feature Film, are competing for the Arab Critics' Awards for European Films, which is jointly hosted by European Film Promotion (EFP) and the Arab Cinema Center (ACC) for the six time.
All of the 22 films which were nominated by EFP’s members, the national film promotion institutes from throughout Europe, have premiered ...
visibility and a tribute to european films in the arab world
A total of 22 European films, including nine Oscar submissions to be considered for Best International Feature Film, are competing for the Arab Critics' Awards for European Films, which is jointly hosted by European Film Promotion (EFP) and the Arab Cinema Center (ACC) for the six time.
All of the 22 films which were nominated by EFP’s members, the national film promotion institutes from throughout Europe, have premiered ...
Filmmaker Nicholas Gyeney has received top prizes on the global festival circuit for his feature horror/thriller The Activated Man. On September 21st, the Hungarian-American director received the Paramount Premium Award, presented by the Hungarian Hollywood Council, at the inaugural Tony Curtis International Film Festival held in Mátészalka, Hungary; followed by the Best Director and Best Film prizes at Cinema Scares Fi...
The winners of the Golden Prague Festival have been announced. The Grand Prix goes to a revolutio...
The 16th Annual Hola Mexico Film Festival, presented by the "2025 Toyota Camry," announced the 2024 winners of this year’s Audience Award, “Soy Lo Que Nunca Fui” by Director Rodrigo Alvarez Flores and the Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today Audience Award, “Onnamusha" by Director Ryan Lopez.
Both films have achieved the top position by garnering the maximum points in the audience award vote, confirming their popularity and appreciation among the ...
lineup for its 11th Miami Film Festival GEMS2024 MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL GEMS ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR FALL EVENT
Fest to open with “The Room Next Door” and close with “A Real Pain”
Centerpiece Screenings to include “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Pérez” & “Maria”
Alfonso Cuarón, Arianne Phillips & Sebastian Stan to Receive Precious Gem Award
Miami Dade College’s ...
‘Taste of Music’ received a standing ovation at the Norwegian Ravenheart film festival in Oslo. The promise of this short directed by the brilliant and talented Kyle Sevenoaks is about a man (played by the maverick Chris Wiborg) for is facing his music keyboard turned evil after a cosmic storm hitting the Earth. The question is, “what would you do if your keyboard became alive and ready to attack you”? I was lucky to connect with Kyle and Chris and to explore a little m...
Ali Samadi Ahadi was born in Tabriz, Iran, and is now based in Cologne, Germany. He’s an award-winning filmmaker, with directorial credits including Lost Children (05) and The Green Wave (10). Seven Days (24) is his latest film.
Interview by Emmanuel Itier
https://tiff.net/events/seven-days
TIFF invited an amazing director, Mr. Ali Samadi Ahadi, to showcase his very moving new film: Seven Days. You will have tears in your eyes whil...
The film Afternoons of Solitude by Albert Serra has won the 2024 Feroz Zinemaldia Award.
The award was received at the Kursaal in San Sebastián by the film’s director himself and its producers, Pedro Palacios and Luis Ferrón. This award recognizes the best film in competition at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, as decided by the members of the Association of Cinematographic Informers of Spain (AICE).
Afternoons of Solitude is an intimate and subli...
DISNEYLAND PARIS September 2024
by Emmanuel Itier
“The Magic Kingdom” is indeed the perfect name for “Disneyland Paris” ( https://www.disneylandparis.com/en-usd/ ). From the first minutes we reached out to our destination via the bullet train TGV we were transported, at once, into an enchanting land unlocking the child within and ready for the adventures of a lifetime. And adventures we had through the many and various Disney theme sections of the two parks: Di...
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The jury of the Official Selection of the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival will be chaired by the winner of the Golden Shell last year, the director Jaione Camborda, who was the first Spanish female filmmaker to win it. The author of O Corno / The Rye Horn will be accompanied in the deliberations by Argentine writer and journalist Leila Guerriero, who has published this year the...
A long list of prestigious filmmakers, actors, screenwriters and producers have confirmed their presence in San Sebastian for the Festival’s 72nd edition. As well as Donostia Award-winners Pedro Almodóvar, Cate Blanchett and Javier Bardem – the latter of whom was recognised at the last edition but has been unable to collect his tribute until now – the following will come to San Sebastian to present their movies: Pamela Anderson, Monica Bellucci, Jamie Campbell Bower, &Ua...
Arnold, Audiard, Baker, Coppola, Courcol, Elliot, Fargeat, Kapadia, Rasoulof, Salles, Sangsoo, Schrader and Sorrentino to compete in San Sebastian Festival’s Perlak section
‘Marco’, by Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, will close the section, also to show ‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Maria Callas: Letters and Memories’ out of competition
https://youtu.be/NV9mhQyiSnc?s...
Klasikoak to programme ‘The Piano’ by Jane Campion; ‘Sha Fu’, by Tseng Chuang-Hsiang; ‘Tatuaje’, by Bigas Luna; ‘Surcos’, by José Antonio Nieves Conde, and ‘Un rêve plus long que la nuit’, by Niki de Saint Phalle
Trailer: https://youtu.be/PkDfVmVCIkw?si=kgS-W-OvC9Uj7uxR
The restored copy of ‘Tasio’, by Montxo Armendáriz, will open the section on Saturday 21st in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre
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