All Festivals articles – Page 437
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      NewsMeryl Streep to be honoured at inaugural TIFF Tribute Gala
As previously announced, Participant Media will receive TIFF Impact Award.
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      FeaturesVenice director Alberto Barbera responds bullishly to provocative Competition selection
“I don’t have to adjust to what some countries think I should do.”
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      NewsAlejandro González Iñárritu to receive Sarajevo 2019 honorary award
The Mexican director will hold a masterclass during the festival.
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      FeaturesVenice 2019 line-up: the key talking points
The interesting themes from this year’s Venice Competition selection.
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      FeaturesComment: This year marks a new low for female directors at Venice
”Barbera has opened the festival’s legs wide for auteurs to further man-spread across the international arthouse landscape.”
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      NewsNetflix presence in Venice Competition provokes criticism from European cinemas body UNIC
Venice has programmed Netflix’s The Laundromat and Marriage Story in this year’s Competition.
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      NewsIranian director Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to one year in prison
Filmmaker has been unable to leave Iran since having his passport confiscated in 2017.
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      NewsSweden’s Carl Film Festival plans sustainability focus
Festival will see Swedish Film Institute launch new funding for young voices.
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      NewsToronto sets out its stall as fall festival season approaches
Selections give clues to Venice, Telluride premieres.
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      NewsDominik Moll’s ‘Only The Animals’ to open 2019 Venice Days programme
Independent strand of Venice festival selects 11 titles for its competition.
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      News‘A Shelter Among The Clouds’ leads winners at Kosovo’s PriFest
Turkish film ‘The Announcement’ picked up two awards.
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      NewsVenice Film Festival to close with Giuseppe Capotondi’s ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’
The film stars Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger.
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      NewsFantasia-bound restored Hungarian animation classic secures US deal (exclusive)
Film will go on international festival tour ahead of early 2020 theatrical release.
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      NewsOdesa film festival industry awards go to projects from Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova
The 10th Odesa film festival closed on Saturday, July 20.
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      NewsSundance Film Festival adds Sudeep Sharma, Ania Trzebiatowska to programming team (exclusive)
New arrivals will work closely with non-fiction-focused programming team.
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      NewsFestivals must be more proactive in addressing gender imbalance, say international insiders
Film festivals continue to grapple with how to achieve 50/50 by 2020.
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      NewsAlejandro Amenábar’s ‘While At War’ headlines Spanish films at San Sebastian 2019
Further titles include Belén Funes’ debut ’A Thief’s Daughter’.
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      NewsVenice 2019 Critics’ Week line-up includes Billie Piper’s directorial debut ‘Rare Beasts’
The strand will open with Indian animation Bombay Rose, and close with Joshua Gil’s fantasy drama Sanctorum.
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      NewsWhistler Film Festival Society names Angela Heck director of industry programming
Whistler Film Festival set for December 4-8.
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      NewsUK’s FrightFest unveils five-person shortlist for Screen Genre Rising Star Award
Nominees include Rebecca Rogers for her role in ‘Stalked’.
 








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