All Festivals articles – Page 86
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Reviews‘About A Hero’: IDFA Review
IDFA opener is an uneven AI-generated hybrid murder mystery in the style of Werner Herzog
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FeaturesHow IDFA’s DocLab is pushing the boundaries of documentary and reality
DocLab’s Caspar Sonnen on why this year’s theme is ‘This Is Not A Simulation’
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Reviews‘The Exalted’: Tallinn Review
Highly-effective satire focuses on an elite Latvian couple whose lifestyle is about to implode
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FeaturesRecord entries, big budgets and new funders: How the IDFA Forum for creative docs is shaping up
Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen, IDFA’s head of industry, says she was surprised by the sheer number of entries this year.
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NewsTim Burton, Ava DuVernay, Justine Triet join starry Marrakech’s Conversations lineup
Eighteen top directors, actors, scriptwriters, and producers are expected in Marrakech this year for the Conversations programme.
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Reviews‘Passing Dreams’: Cairo Review
Cairo opens with a defiantly upbeat Palestinian road movie about a young boy and his missing pigeon
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NewsBerlin’s Tricia Tuttle says ‘No Other Land’ directors’ comments are not antisemitic
“Discourse which suggests this creates danger for them inside and outside Germany.”
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NewsRotterdam to hold retrospectives of Katja Raganelli and Sergii Masloboishchykov
Festival’s 2025 Focus programme also explores legacy of VHS culture and tribute to Bandung Conference.
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NewsTodd Haynes to head Berlin Film Festival 2025 jury
Festival director Tricia Tuttle calls Haynes “a dazzlingly gifted writer and director with an impressive range.”
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Features“Documentary film has always been annoying to authorities,” says IDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia
The artistic director is embracing issues from AI to global politics in his final edition that opens today.
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Reviews‘Reading Lolita In Tehran’: Tallinn Review
Golshifteh Farahani plays a literary professor trying to stem the tide of repression in revolutionary Iran
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NewsTallinn Black Nights responds to criticism of Russian film: “This is an anti-war work”
Film has been removed from the Standing with Ukraine programme, but remains in competition.
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Reviews‘Dismantling An Elephant’: Seville Review
A mother’s alcoholism casts a shadow over a wealthy Barcelona family
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Reviews‘A Missing Part’: Seville Review
Romain Duris is a French father working in Tokyo who falls foul of Japanese custody laws
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News‘The Summer Book’, ‘The Room Next Door’ bookend 2024 AFI European Union Film Showcase
Brady Corbet’s Venice Silver Lion winner The Brutalist is centrepiece selection.
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NewsBacklash to Camerimage director’s “misogynistic” op-ed on women in cinematography
The British Society of Cinematographers and Women In Cinematography among those to criticise head of film festival.
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Reviews‘The Antique’: Seville Review
Georgia’s Oscar submission was shot in Russia and tracks exiles in St Petersburg
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NewsIva Radivojević’s ‘When The Phone Rang’ wins main prize at Connecting Cottbus
The Serbian director’s second feature explore the concept of home and trauma.
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NewsScandar Copti’s ‘Happy Holidays’ takes top prize at Thessaloniki
Copti previously won prizes at Thessaloniki in 2009 for his Academy Award nominated Ajami.