Latest festival news – Page 194
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NewsSpike Lee to head 2020 Cannes Film Festival jury
Lee “honored to be the first person of the African diaspora (USA) to be named president of the Cannes Jury and of a main film festival.”
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NewsJeremy Irons to head 2020 Berlinale international jury
British actor to serve as president of the international jury.
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NewsBerlinale 2020 adds screening venues in the wake of closures
Festival to take over all nine screens at the CineStar CUBIX
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NewsGlasgow Film Festival to open with ‘Proxima’; close with ‘How To Build A Girl’
UK premiere of ‘Proxima’ to open 16th edition of the festival.
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NewsGoteborg film festival to kick off gender-balanced programme with ‘Psychosis In Stockholm’
50% of its programme will be comprised of films directed by women.
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NewsSlamdance 2020 to open with ‘Film About A Father Who’
Animation Outlaws, Lillian join Special Screenings roster.
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NewsRotterdam Film Festival reveals 2020 line-up; ‘Mosquito’ to open
‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood’ to close the festival, which runs January 22 to February 2.
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NewsBerlinale unveils first films for 2020; Matteo Garrone’s ‘Pinocchio’ first special gala
Matteo Garrone to present ‘Pinocchio’ as the first Berlinale Special Gala.
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NewsRussian drama wins €50,000 Eurimages prize in Les Arcs
Buzzy non-prize winners included Lamb and Shorta.
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NewsLes Arcs Film Festival launches €10,000 Green award
Festival is using its carbon offset to launch new fund aimed at fiction features tackling ecological issue.
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NewsUS comedy ‘Give Me Liberty’ takes top prize at Macao film festival
Fyzal Boulifa won best director for UK title ‘Lynn + Lucy’.
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NewsVanja Kaludjercic to take over as director of International Film Festival Rotterdam (exclusive)
She talks exclusively to Screen about her new role.
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News‘Balloon’ takes best picture at Hainan Island International Film Festival
Wang Lina’s A First Farewell took awards for best director and best actress.
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NewsPhilippines' ’Dear Wormwood’ wins best project at Macao film festival
IFFAM Project Market also handed awards to projects from South Africa, Australia-Japan and Portugal.
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NewsNajwa Najjar talks about her middle-class Palestinian divorce drama ‘Between Heaven And Earth’
The film received a 10-minute standing ovation at its world premiere.
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NewsUK films enjoy strong showing in Sundance selection
Line-up includes five BBC Films titles and two from Film4.
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NewsSundance 2020 to premiere new work from Benh Zeitlin, Julie Taymor, Ai Weiwei, Liz Garbus
Record submissions yield selections from 27 countries.
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NewsHelen Mirren to receive lifetime achievement award at the Berlinale
Films screening as part of homage include ’The Long Good Friday’ and ‘The Queen’.
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NewsNew Berlinale screening venues confirmed for 2020
Race to replace loss of Sony Center and Imax venues.
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NewsFormer Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick joins Prague’s Febiofest (exclusive)
He will oversee a section fusing film with food.