Filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin met with Guillaume Esmiol, Cannes Market Director and co-director of Ventana Sur at UCA while the market is in full gear buzzing with record attendance.
Ventana Sur is the most important market for audiovisual content in Latin America, and it is a must in the schedule of distributors and buyers from the international industry. Organized by the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) and the Marché du Film – Cannes Film Festival, ...
The Cannes Film Festival film week is taking place from Monday, November 27 to Sunday, December 3 at the Gaumont Cinema with the support of INCAA and Marché du film – Cannes Festival within the framework of the 15th edition of Ventana Sur. Thierry Fremaux Cannes Festival director selected the winners, and I was happy to watch Justine Trier 's winning courtroom thriller (Palme d'or).
Anatomy of a Fall had its world premiere at the 76th Can...
Nu te astepta pre mult de la sfarsitul lumii is the Romanian title, not short either. The international one is "Do not expect too much from the end of the world", a long title for a long film which I watched yesterday night at the screening reserved for press which started at 8:30 pm and lasted till 11:20 pm. And long are also the working hours of the main protagononist 16-20 per day and she is in a permanent lack of sleep. In part one we follow Angela, this overworked PA who must dr...
48. Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival | December 3/10 2023 | Avellino
To Robert Guédiguian the “Pier Paolo Pasolini' Lifetime Achievement Award
The master of French social cinema second international guest announced after Paul Schrader (USA)
The French director Robert Guédiguian, winner of the "Pier Paolo Pasolini" Lifetime Achievement Award, will open the 48th edition of the Laceno d'Oro Internat...
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Greta Gerwig is the recipient of the Director of the Year Award for her critically acclaimed, record-breaking Barbie. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024. The event will be sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts.
“Director Greta Gerwig has brought us the cinematic experience of th...
After winning the Silver Bear at Berlinale earlier this year, German director Christian Petzold returns to the TFF with "Afire" out of competicion and for a masterclass which took place on the 27.11 at the Cavallerizza in Turin.
Whaty is his new film about?
Two German friends are heading to the German Baltic Sea, their dfestination is a house owned by Felix’s mother. The writer, Leon (Thomas Schubert), and his friend, Felix (L...
The world premiere of "Immortals. The Wonders Of The Museo Egizio" took place yesterday November 26 at the Romano Cinema in Turin with the director Dr. Christian Greco and the president Evelina Christellin of the Egyptian Museum presents, aswell as the director Michele Mally.
The documentary takes viewers on a journey through the fascinating history of ancient Egypt's most beautiful archaeological finds. We also follow Kha, an architect and builder of tombs for pharaohs, on h...
Model and actress Catrinel Marlon the host of yesterday opening ceremony of the 41 Torino International Film Festival-TFF explores new horizons in Torino. She is celebrating her directorial debut here in Torino. A very emotional Catrinel, took the stage today at 5:30 pm in front of her cast and the audience presenting „Girasoli/Sunflowers“ at the Cinema Romano. This is a world premiere, not only the audience also her cast is seeing the film for the very first time. Her talented lea...
A group of leading international film experts and professionals will participate in the first stage of VENTURA, consisting of a professional training programme aimed at the producers representing the five Spanish projects, selected from among the more than 200 applications received. This series of training sessions, which will take place from 11th to 15th December, aims to provide and enrich knowledge on financing, co-production, distribution, marketing, sustainability, audience design an...
Festival director Christoph Gröner with the moderators of the closing ceremony Christina Wolf and Malte Borkmann, in the background the festival team. Watch his video Interview below!
"Munich as a city is always worth visiting, and in case you are into films you should not miss the international film festivals taking place in the Bavarian capital, bringing glamour into the city, transforming several spots into red carpet venues. This transformation occures not only once but twice a ...
The legendary American filmmaker will be in Avellino for the festival founded by Pasolini: 48th Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival | December 3-10 2023 | Avellino
American director (Master Gardener, The Card Counter, First Reformed, Cat People, American Gigolo) and screenwriter (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Obsession, The Yakuza) Paul Schrader will receive “Laceno d’Oro” Lifetime Achievement Award at the 48th Laceno d’Oro International Film Fest...
Winners only!
The Cannes Film Festival film week will take place from Monday, November 27 to Sunday, December 3 at the Gaumont Cinema with the support of INCAA and Marché du film – Cannes Festival within the framework of the 15th edition of Ventana Sur .
Thierry Frémaux, General Director of the Cannes Festival, returns to present a selection of six films from the official programming of the 2023 Cannes festival.
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Eurimages and the European Film Academy have the pleasure to award producer Uljana Kim with this years’ EURIMAGES INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION AWARD. Uljana Kim, born in 1969 in a Korean family in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, graduated from the Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (VGIK) in 1993 and is a film critic by education. She emigrated to Lithuania, where she founded Studio Uljana Kim in 1997. At that time, she was the first female producer in Lithuania.
Since then, the Vilnius-based produc...
The European Film Academy launches European Film Club initiative for young people across Europe to commence the Month of European Film
Teenagers aged 12-19 can now access and discuss a catalogue of European films on the newly launched viewing platform.
European Film Club, the co-creation of the European Film Academy and young people from 25 countries, was launched this weekend across Europe, with the backing of Creative Europe MEDIA.
Several ye...
Sydney Film Festival today announced the ground-breaking appointment of acclaimed First Nations Producer Darren Dale as Board Chair of Sydney Film Festival, following the retirement of media entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist Deanne Weir in October 2023 after eight years on the Board.
A director of Blackfella Films since 2000, and an industry veteran, Darren is a leading advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content whose work has achi...
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Da’Vine Joy Randolph is the recipient of the Breakthrough Performance Award, for The Holdovers. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024. The event will be sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts.
"In The Holdovers, Da’Vine Joy Randolph brings not o...
Virtuosos Award
honoring
Lily Gladstone (KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (THE HOLDOVERS)
Greta Lee (PAST LIVES)
Charles Melton (MAY DECEMBER)
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED
Saturday, February 10th, 2024
8:00pm
Arlington Theatre,
Santa Barbara, CA
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is honored to announce the first group of recipients to receive the Virtuosos Award, an honor created to recognize a select group of talent whose noteworthy performanc...
Ireland-based youth film non-profit Cinemagic has become a strategic partner of French Riviera Film Festival. CEO and MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) Joan Burney Keatings has also joined the festival's prestigious advisory board, which includes such high profile individuals as E! Entertainment Television founder Larry Namer, and COO, filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin, among others.
“We're simply delighted to partner with Joan&nbs...
Oscar®-winner Juliette Binoche visited Beverly Hills recently to promote her latest film, The Taste Of Things, France’s official entry, best international feature for the 96th Academy Awards.
Filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng (The Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo) won best director for the film at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, while Binoche is nominated in the best supporting performance category of the 2023 Gotham Awards.
Set in France in the late 19th century, the film...
Costa Gavras and Cristian Mungiu
The Cinema Heritage festival announces the 9 films in the International Competition after more than 500 films were viewed.
Eva Peydro, Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière and Philip Cheah, who make up the Selection Committee for the first edition of the Cinema Heritage festival, have viewed 500 films from 56 different countries and are presenting the finalists.
The I...
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Emma Stone is the recipient of the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, for Searchlight Pictures’ Poor Things. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024. The event will be sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts.
“Emma Stone continues t...
The New York Festivals® Television & Film Awards announced the 2024 Grand Jury.
Award-winning Global Storytellers Recruited from Leading TV & Film Industry Giants Worldwide
This years’ Grand Jury includes award-winning executive producers, journalists, documentary filmmakers, directors, and screenwriters from two dozen countries. Celebrated around the world for their innovative work, these individuals volunteer their time f...
With heavy hearts, we bid a farewell to the legendary film critic Michel Ciment. Devoting his life to cinema, Ciment became a cornerstone of French film criticism for over half a century. In 1976, he served as a member of the International Jury, and in his role as the festival's foreign delegate for the Official Programme, he provided valuable counsel to the Festival Director and the Selection Committee of the Berlinale for numerous years.
"For all those who consider the 'cin...
She had distributed three Golden Lion films, Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano,
The Circle (2000) by Jafar Panahi and From Afar (2015) by Lorenzo Vigas
A remembrance by Alberto Barbera /
The President, the General Manager, the Artistic Director of the Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia remember with esteem and affection the great French-Iranian producer and distributor Hengameh Panahi, founder of Celluloid Dreams and unparalleled...
Michel Ciment (1938-2023) pictured on the wall (shot by Jerry Schatzberg with closed eyes, quite unusual for a film critic) and with Jerry shot by Bruno Chatelin
Michel Ciment au festival Lumière, photo Paul Grandsard
Historic director of “Positif” magazine, he was a juror and expert for the Venice International Film Festival which he followed uninterruptedly from 1964 to 2021.
The President, the General Manager, the Artistic Director of the ...
