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The Winning films of SRFF 2025 announced and Karren Karagulian Honored with a Cinematic Achievement Award

The 12th annual edition of SR Socially Relevant Film Festival NY 2025 wrapped on Sunday with an Awards Closing Night. During this event, multiple awards were given to talented filmmakers, and a Cinematic Achievement Honor Award was presented to Anora's co-star, Karren Karagulian.   Photo: Honor Awardee Karren Karagulian with Nora Armani The 12th Edition of the SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival in-person section closed on March 16 at the Tenri...

Roll out the red carpet for the Filmfest Bremen award ceremony

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...

FANTASPORTO 2025 Awards

    Another big step towards expanding the Festival's international image WORLD PREMIERES WIN FANTASPORTO 2025 DOLLHOUSE IS THE GRAND PRIZE   This year, the four juries of the 45th edition of the OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL- FANTASPORTO  have given us a truly astonishing list of winners, which only goes to show the quality of the event's program, with the awards distributed among a wide variety of films. Asian and North American cinem...

The 2025 HKIFF Industry Project Market Announced 24 Award Winners

  The 2025 HKIFF Industry Project Market concluded today by awarding 24 cash and in-kind prizes worth over US$250,000 to outstanding projects of diverse interests and genres. In anticipation of its 50th anniversary, the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society and Metamedia announced the launching of the Asian Short Film Fund, a joint effort in providing support to more Asian filmmakers. Submissions will open in May. Stay tuned.   ...

Congratulations to the Rockie Awards International Program Competition nominees

Congratulations to the Rockie Awards International Program Competition nominees We are pleased to announce 152 incredible programs, representing 22 countries and selected from entries submitted from 45 countries, are vying for this year's top honours across 30 categories in BANFF's flagship competition recognizing excellence in global screen content.  Screen clips from all nominated shows HERE and meet the nominees at the Banff World Media Festival this June....

New York Int'l Children's Film Festival awards have been announced

February 28 - March 16, 2025: And the winners are... You came. You watched. You voted. The results are finally in: please join us in congratulating the 2025 New York International Children’s Film Festival Award Winners! Cue the confetti!      Audience Awards   Audience Awards are determined by the votes of audience members within specific age ranges       ...

Bergamo Film Meeting / The winners of the 43rd edition of the festival

  BERGAMO FILM MEETING International Film Festival 43rd edition, March 8 - 16, 2025 43rd EDITION – THE WINNERS Gina - Ulrike Kofler     Gina by Ulrike Kofler (Austria, 2024) is the winner of the main competition Mostra Concorso of the 43nd edition of Bergamo Film Meeting. Chosen by the audience, the film will receive the Bergamo Film Meeting Prize, worth 5,000 €. The international jury, composed of Dániel Hev&eacu...

Global Entertainment Awards 2025 Winners Revealed

The marketing and promotion creatives working on hit film, TV and games had their moment in the sun at the fourth Global Entertainment Awards over the weekend. The awards, held in the Algarve, Portugal, recognize work across film, TV, games and streaming. Brazilian broadcaster Globo’s trailer for its coverage of the Olympic Games won Best Trailer in the TV sec...

The Global Entertainment Awards 2025 advanced by AMD has today announced the regional winners for its 2025 awards celebration

THE GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS ANNOUNCE REGIONAL WINNERS   The Global Entertainment Awards 2025 advanced by AMD has today announced the regional winners for its 2025 awards celebration. The Global Entertainment Awards is an opportunity to recognise the creatives from across the world who are continuously setting new standards in how entertainment products across Cinema, Games, Streaming and TV are sold, experienced and remembered. Having been considered by a panel of high-p...

The 97th Academy Awards | 2025 Winners announced

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  Best Picture Winner Anora Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker, Producers Nominees The Brutalist Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim and Brady Corbet, Producers A Complete Unknown Fred Berger, James Mangold and Alex Heineman, Producers Conclave Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Michael A. Jackman, Producers ...

Prizes awarded by La Semaine de la Critique's Jury

Prizes awarded by La Semaine de la Critique's Jury Sylvie Pialat, jury president Ben Croll, Iris Kaltenbäck, Virginie Surdej, Eliane Umuhire Grand Prize Simon de la montaña (Simon of the mountain) by Federico Luis French Touch Prize of the Jury Blue Sun Palace by Constance Tsang  Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award Ricardo Teodoro for Baby by Marcelo Caetano Leitz Cine ...

The 2024 Ecumenical Jury awards its Prize to : THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG

The 2024 Ecumenical Jury awards its Prize to : THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG by Mohammad Rasoulof Iran / Allemagne / France (Official Competition) When religion is associated with political power and patriarchy, it can destroy the most intimate relationships and the dignity of individuals, as this Iranian family drama embodies. The jury was impressed by the film’s rich symbolism, its generous and hopeful ending, its touches of humour and its heartbreaking tension. The...

PIERRE ANGÉNIEUX TRIBUTE to SANTOSH SIVAN and ANGÉNIEUX SPECIAL ENCOURAGEMENT to KADRI KOOP (Estonia)

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  Friday May 24, 2024 at 8.15PM Buñuel Theater, Palais des Festivals       On May 24 2024, on the last evening before the closing of the Cannes Film Festival, Angénieux, the world-renowned optical manufacturer and flagship of the French lenses industry, celebrated the Pierre Angénieux Tribute.     ...

The 77th Festival de Cannes winners

After 11 days of an exceptional edition, the Jury of the 77th Festival de Cannes, chaired by American director, screenwriter and actress Greta Gerwig, surrounded by Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, as well as Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, Japanese director Kore-eda ...

Colored awarded for Best Immersive Work of the 77th Festival de Cannes

    MAY 23, 2024  at the Plage des Palmes, the Jury of the Immersive Competition of the 77th Festival de Cannes awarded the prize for Best Immersive Work, presenting one winner among the eight in-competition virtual reality, augmented reality, video projection and holographic works. The Jury, chaired by French filmmaker and screenwriter Marie Amachoukeli, included French writer, director and producer Mathias Chelebourg, American producer, writer, and director Vassiliki Kho...

Studio Ghibli Honorary Palme d'or of the 77th Festival de Cannes In the presence of Gorō Miyazaki

The 77th Festival de Cannes is delighted to celebrate Studio Ghibli, legendary Japanese animation studio. On Monday, May 20, at 3.30pm, film director and Creative Development Director of the Ghibli Park Gorō Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki' son, will take to the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to receive the Honorary Palme d'or, on behalf of the entire Studio Ghibli including the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka and Ghibli Park, from Festival President Iris Knobloch and Gener...

The 31st Victoria Film Festival award winners

2025 Victoria Film Festival   The 31st Victoria Film Festival featured: 91 feature films 30 shorts 37 screenings with a guest a record 40 sold out screenings 27 guests at the SpringBoard industry event  7 venues 1 trivia night and vampire zombies. As well, there are seven award winners! Check them out below!   ...

Winners Announced for the CICAE Arthouse Cinema Award at 75th Berlinale

Today were announced the winners of the CICAE Arthouse Cinema Awards at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Recognizing exceptional artistry and storytelling in independent cinema, the CICAE Arthouse Cinema Awards are given at major international festivals by an international jury of arthouse cinema exhibitors and programmers, and aim at bringing high-quality films to the arthouse cinemas. The Jury is composed of arthouse cinema exhibitors and members of the association, who apply thr...

Awards of the Berlinale Official Juries

Golden Bear for Best Film  awarded to the film’s producers of Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love)) by Dag Johan Haugerud Produced by: Yngve Sæther, Hege Hauff Hvattum   Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize   O último azul (The Blue Trail) by Gabriel Mascaro   Silver Bear Jury Prize   El mensaje (The Message) by Iván Fund   Silver Bear for Best Director Huo Meng ...

Prizes at Generation Kplus

Berlinale 2025: Prizes at Generation Kplus Clockwise from top left: Maya, donne-moi un titre (Maya, Give Me a Title) © Partizan Films; Zirkuskind (Circusboy) © Julia Lemke / Flare Film; Down in the Dumps; Little Rebels Cinema Club   Berlinale 2025: Crystal Bears at Generation Kplus   Crystal Bears    The members of the Children’s Jury Generation Kplus – Bonnie Lou Severin, Lenja Utecht, Jim ...

Awards of the Berlinale Independent Juries

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PRIZES OF THE INDEPENDENT JURIES PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY Members of the Jury: Juan Carlos Carrillo Cal y Mayor, Peter Ciaccio, Valérie de Marnhac, Christian Olding, Dr. Brigitta Rotach, Dr. Stefanie Schardien Competition O último azul (The Blue Trail) by Gabriel Mascaro Jury Statement: This Brazilian dystopic fable follows an unlikely hero in a search for freedom. A 77 years-old woman escapes from a future that has been written for her by an authoritarian state...

The Panorama Audience Awards Go to Sorda and Die Möllner Briefe

Sorda © Nuria Jean; Die Möllner Briefe © inselfilm produktion The audience has voted: The 27th Panorama Audience Award for the best feature film goes to Sorda by Eva Libertad, Die Möllner Briefe by Martina Priessner wins in the category Panorama Dokumente. The prizes are awarded by the Berlinale section Panorama together with radioeins and rbb television (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg).   The award-...

Berlinale 2025: Prizes at Generation 14plus

Clockwise from top left: Sunshine; Hora do recreio (Playtime); Atardecer en América (Sunset over America); Wish You Were Ear © Mirjana Balogh   Crystal Bears and Prizes of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) at Generation 14plus   Crystal Bears   The members of the Youth Jury Generation 14plus – Nour Ibrahim, Zeynep Atay, Tyler Kurokhtin, Jil Baalmann, Rohan Yadav – have a...

Global Entertainment Awards and Women In Cloud Partner to Empower Women in Entertainment

  The Global Entertainment Awards (GEA) and Women In Cloud (WIC) today announced an innovative partnership aimed at fostering collaboration between the technology and entertainment industries, with a specific focus on empowering women in both sectors.   The partnership will take a two-pronged approach to achieve its goals: firstly, by empowering marketing and distribution creatives with access to AI tools from Women In Cloud via the Global Entertainment Awards AMD Emerging Talent ...

Awards from the 32nd edition of the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival

  The Jury of the 32nd edition of the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival, chaired by Vimala Pons with Vladimir Cauchemar, Jérémy Clapin, Clotilde Hesme, William Lebghil, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel gave the following awards: Grand Prize Supported by la Région Grand Est IN A VIOLENT NATURE by Chris Nash (Canda)  (French distribution : Mediawan Rights / Insomnia)  ...
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