Latest festival news – Page 333
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News'Shameless,' 'Assassin' for Asian World festival
EXCLUSIVE: The new Los Angeles festival will open with South Korea’s The Shameless and close with Taiwan’s foreign language Oscar submission The Assassin.
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NewsBritish Urban Film Festival appoints Deacon, Ali, Fontaine
The trio join the board of the festival, which aims to increase the heritage of British diversity.
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NewsIDFA unveils 2015 competition titles
George Gittoes’s Snow Monkey (pictured) and Nick Read’s Bolshoi Babylon among the 15 titles in competition.
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NewsLeipzig to host Mansky, Belc, Gordillo world premieres
New films by Vitaly Mansky, Alexandru Belc and Joseph Gordillo are among the world premieres in competition at this year’s DOK Leipzig (Oct 26 - Nov 1).
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NewsProtests and Chantal Akerman tribute kick off BFI London Film Festival
Feminist protesters jumped the barriers at the premiere of Suffragette.
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NewsAaron Sorkin to receive Israel Film Festival award
The Israel Film Festival in Beverly Hills is giving its film and television achievement award to the the Steve Jobs screenwriter.
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NewsRyan's Ithaca set for festival premiere
Meg Ryan’s directorial debut will get its world premiere at the Middleburg festival, which will also screen several foreign language film Oscar contenders.
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NewsTalent agent Richard Cook calls for film fund/festival rethink
Leading European talent agent Richard Cook has called for a radical re-thinking of both the European film festival system and of public funding bodies like Eurimages and MEDIA.
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NewsElad Keidan's 'Afterthought' wins at Haifa Film Festival
Other winners include Venice title Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me and documentary Rabin In His Own Words.
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NewsIceland’s 'Rams' wins at Zurich
Mexico’s Kings of Nowhere wins doc prize; Thank You For Bombing wins Switzerland, Germany, Austria award.
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NewsRio opens with Chico doc ahead of packed 2015 edition
Rio de Janeiro’s International Film Festival opened last night (Oct 1) celebrating the life and work of local hero Chico Buarque who, at 71, remains one of Brazil’s top composers, musicians and singers.
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NewsReykjavik festival director reflects on growing event
When RIFF (Reykjavik International Film Festival) was founded in 2004, expectations for the new event were far from high.
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NewsHalloween FrightFest to shift from night to day
Guests include James Purefoy and Olga Kurylenko for UK premiere of Stephen S. Campanelli’s Momentum.
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NewsMakhmalbaf to receive Singapore honour
The 26th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is set to pay tribute to Iranian filmmaker in exile Mohsen Makhmalbaf with a retrospective and an honorary award.
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NewsWalter Murch to receive Camerimage honour
Apocalypse Now editor to receive special award at cinematography festival.
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NewsEIFF’s Chris Fujiwara resurfaces at new London East Asia Film Festival
EXCLUSIVE: New festival plans launch in 2016; preview event this month will open with the European premiere of Korean box office hit Veteran.
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NewsHaifa: Mohsen Makhmalbaf talks arrest, torture and film
Back in Israel for the fourth time to serve as the president of the Haifa Film Festival jury, Mohsen Makhmalbaf is fully conscious of the simmering anger he provokes among the authorities of his native Iran.
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News'Room', Paul Thomas Anderson doc set for reinvented Rome
New festival director criticizes “myopic” battle for premieres and reveals London Film Festival “alliance”.
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NewsRussia's Gosfilmofond plans Cannes alternative
Russia’s National Film Foundation Gosfilmofond is planning an alternative international film festival to be staged in Nice during next year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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NewsZurich 2015: Screen's dailies
Read Screen International’s daily magazines from the 11th Zurich Film Festival here.