All Festivals articles – Page 100
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Reviews‘Cafe’: Thessaloniki Review
Jailed Iranian filmmaker Navid Mihanoust presents an self-referential tale of a director living in limbo while waiting for a prison sentence
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NewsIDFA apologises for “hurtful” slogan shown by activists at opening ceremony
”That slogan does not represent us, and we do not endorse it in any way.”
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NewsIDFA responds to open letter condemning inclusion of Russian film in programme
The letter said: “To continue providing space for representatives of the Russian cultural sector on international platforms means to normalize the unequal circumstances in which filmmakers in Russia and Ukraine live and work today.”
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Reviews‘We Have Never Been Modern’: Thessaloniki Review
Period Czech drama set at the dawn of the Second World War has a decidedly modern sensibility
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NewsMagnolia acquires US rights to Participant, River Road doc ‘Food, Inc. 2’
Dogwoof boards international sales.
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Reviews‘Patient #1’: Tallinn Review
A young nurse in Moscow at the end of the Soviet era struggles to care for a VIP patient
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Reviews‘Murderess’: Thessaloniki Review
Unrelentingly brutal period drama about an ageing midwife who battles the patriarchy in a remote Greek village
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Reviews‘A Picture To Remember’: IDFA Review
IDFA 2023 opens with an intimate film about the effects of war on one Ukranian family
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Features‘Techno-feminism’ can tackle the male gaze in immersive content, say female creatives
A talk at the Geneva Digital Market explored the impact of female gaze and the male gaze in immersive projects.
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NewsHubert Bals Fund selects 10 projects for 2023 Development Support scheme
Selection includes new projects from prize winning directors Martika Ramirez Escobar, Leonardo Martinelli and Le Bao.
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FeaturesHow IDFA’s DocLab is bringing a “weightless, ephemeral digital experience’ to a physical festival audience
DocLab’s Casper Sonnen explains why this year’s theme is ’Phenomenal Fiction’.
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Reviews‘Snow In Midsummer’: Review
Festival heavyweight revisits the tragic race riots that occured in Kuala Lumpur on May 13, 1969
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NewsMunich Film Up! mentoring programme unveils 2023 participants (exclusive)
The selected participants have all recently graduated from film school and are hoping to develop their feature debut.
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News“We need to shift our view about AI”: experts say tech is a tool for storytelling at Geneva
Speakers at panel on AI put forward positive use cases for the technology.
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FeaturesUkrainian director Olga Chernykh on her IDFA opening documentary ’A Picture To Remember ’
Director tells Screen about the deeply personal approach she has taken with her first documentary
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Reviews‘Melk’: Thessaloniki Review
A grieving mother must find a way to come to terms with her loss in this quiet Dutch debut
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Features“This is a mirror of the world”: IDFA director Orwa Nyrabia on reflecting pressing global issues at the festival
Documentary festival opens with Olga Chernykh’s personal portrait of the Ukraine-Russia conflict ’A Picture To Remember’
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News“New technologies offer the most amazing opportunity”: Geneva Digital Market opens with rallying cry for brave new world
Hollywood veteran Christina Lee Storm delivered opening keynote at 2023 Geneva Digital Market.
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NewsRed Sea’s Souk Project Market selects 26 projects competing for $360,000 prizes
Industry speakers at festival include ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ director Jasmila Zbanic, former Marvel exec Karim Zreik.
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NewsMarrakech film festival to honour Mads Mikkelsen, Faouzi Bensaidi
The Marrakech International Film Festival runs November 24 – December 2.