Latest festival news – Page 18
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NewsLightdox picks up ‘Valentina And The MUOSters’ doc ahead of DOK Leipzig
The Swiss-Italian feature, set on the island of Sicily, will play in international competition.
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NewsItalian artist duo Masbedo on their Rome premiere ‘Arsa’: “Everyone can build a rich inner life”
Set on the volcanic island of Stromboli, ‘Arsa’ centres on an enigmatic young woman who has just lost her father.
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NewsHungarian director Bela Tarr to receive Tokyo film festival honour
The filmmaker is known for features including ‘Werckmeister Harmonies’ and ‘The Turin Horse’.
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NewsBFI London Film festival unveils 2024 award winners
Winners hail from Australia, UK, and Palestine.
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NewsKino Lorber acquires Sally Aitken’s Sundance, CPH:DOX hit ‘Every Little Thing’ (exclusive)
Film has also screened at SXSW, CPH:DOX, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Hot Docs.
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NewsTallinn completes Official Selection Competition with 11 world premieres
World premieres include Ukrainian feature ‘The Mousetrap’, filmed between military service breaks.
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NewsHulu sets debut date for TIFF opener ‘Nutcrackers’
Rivulet Films fully financed feelgood holiday film directed by David Gordon Green, starring Ben Stiller.
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NewsUK’s Grimmfest crowns dystopian sci-fi ‘M’, honours Nick Frost (exclusive)
The best film award went to Vardan Tozija’s dystopian drama M.
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News‘Kill The Jockey’, ‘The Outrun’ line up for Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival 2024
Annette Bening will receive the festival’s Icon award and will attend a special screening of ‘The Grifters’.
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NewsToronto Platform winner ‘They Will Be Dust’ to open Valladolid International Film Week
The festival is a major launchpad into the Spanish market.
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NewsFrancis Ford Coppola still hopes to make live cinema project ‘Distant Vision’
Coppola also decries film business for its lack of risk taking during in conversation event on eve of Rome Film Festival.
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NewsRome artistic director Paola Malanga: “This is an urban, contemporary and audience-orientated festival”
Rome Film Festival kicks off today with world premiere of Andrea Segre’s ’The Great Ambition.’
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News‘About A Hero’, hybrid doc about an AI-generated Werner Herzog film, to open IDFA 2024
‘About A Hero’ is directed by Polish artist and filmmaker Piotr Winiewicz.
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NewsAnimation ‘Flow’ triumphs at Athens film festival
Other winners included ‘In The Summers’ and ‘Vermiglio’.
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NewsDonald Trump trashes ‘The Apprentice’ as “politically disgusting hatchet job”
Filmmaker Ali Abbasi responds.
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NewsArgentinian horror and Sitges FanPitch hit ‘Blind Paradise’ lands sales deal with Firebook ahead of AFM (exclusive)
Néstor Sánchez Sotelo of Del Toro Films is producing.
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NewsDenis Villeneuve wants to make dialogue-free film, talks ‘Dune’ aims
“I tried to do the ‘Dune’ adaptation to be as faithful [as possible] to Frank Herbert’s initial desires.”
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NewsTallinn Black Nights Film Festival unveils first feature competition line-up
Seven world premieres and four international premieres will launch in the section.
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NewsRome Film Festival unveils competition jury
Argentinian director, screenwriter and producerto head jury for festival’s Progressive Cinema Competition.