All Festivals articles – Page 245
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Reviews‘My Lost Country’: IDFA Review
Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez’s autobiographical essay film won IDFA Envision’s Outstanding Artistic Contribution prize
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Reviews‘Pelican’: Tallinn Review
An injured Croatian footballer questions his entire life in this Croatian feature debut
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NewsIndian icon Shah Rukh Khan to receive Red Sea honorary award
‘King Of Bollywood’ Khan has appeared in over 100 films across over three decades.
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FeaturesOrwa Nyrabia on how IDFA is trying to democratise the festival gatekeeping process
“I have to let go and share my power with others,” says Nyrabia.
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News‘Coda’ producers’ Second World War drama ‘Farewell, Mr. Haffmann’ garners US accolades
The historical drama is a follow-up to ‘Coda’ for Vendôme Films and Pathé.
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FeaturesA matter of factual: Do documentary festivals need to change their focus?
As docs struggle at cinemas, change may be needed.
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NewsStockholm’s top prize goes to Ali Abbasi’s ‘Holy Spider’
Other winners include Emily, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed; Swedish Film Institute unveils new talent Wild Card prizes.
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NewsIranian drama ‘A Tale Of Shemroon’ scoops top prize at Marrakech Film Festival
Director Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi dedicates award to ‘women of Iran and younger generation.’
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Reviews‘Riverbed’: Cairo Review
A mother and daughter struggle to reconnect in Bassem Breche’s imagery-led feature debut
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Reviews‘Typist Artist Pirate King’: Tallinn Review
Carol Morley presents a fictionalised portrait of little-known avant-garde schizophrenic artist Audrey Amiss
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Reviews‘The Astronaut’: Cairo Review
Nicolas Giraud’s portrait of a French loner sending himself to space fails to get off the ground
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NewsGravitas Ventures, Mk2 strike deal over Australian Tribeca selection ‘Blaze’ (exclusive)
Julia Savage, Simon Baker, Josh Lawson, Yael Stone star.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Esther van Messel on arriving first, wise women and maintaining a champagne-stocked fridge
The CEO of Swiss doc outfit FIrst Hand Films spent time on a kibbutz before studying film with Ari Folman and Hagi Levi.
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NewsBerlinale faces reduction in screens at key venue ahead of 2023 edition
Around half of the 3,500 seats at Berlin’s biggest cinema complex, the Vue-owned CinemaxX, will be unavailable.
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Reviews‘Apolonia, Apolonia’: IDFA Review
IDFA’s International Competition winner is an intimate portrait of Danish-French artist Apolonia Sokol
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Reviews‘19B’: Cairo Review
An elderly caretaker tends to a crumbling Cairo villa in Ahmad Abdalla’s engaging third feature
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FeaturesIndustry@Tallinn reshapes schedule, gifts and dinners to adjust to Estonia’s rising costs
The industry programme is four packed days compared to eight in previous years.
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Reviews‘Alam’: Cairo Review
A Palestinian-Israeli teenager struggles to shake off the weight of history in Firas Khoury’s feature debut
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NewsDanish director Lea Glob’s ‘Apolonia, Apolonia’ wins best film in IDFA international competition
Festival continues through Sunday.
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Reviews‘How Dare You Have Such A Rubbish Wish’: IDFA Review
Mania Akbari explores the depiction of women on screen through an archive of pre-Revlutionary Iranian cinema