Latest festival news – Page 426
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NewsHong Kong to open with Final Fight
Herman Yau’s Ip Man - The Final Fight will open this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (March 17-April 2), while Closed Curtain directed by Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi will close the event.
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NewsHefzy named artistic director of Ismalia
Egypt’s Ismalia International Film Festival has named producer and writer Mohamed Hefzy artistic director.
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NewsCartagena ups films for 53rd edition
Festival opens tonight with Andres Baiz’s ROA; industry initiatives include producers meeting, documentary focus and film festival management sessions.
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NewsLocarno reveals spin-off line-up
Carlo Chatrain will be artistic director of the first L’immagine e la Parola, with Russian Ark director Alexander Sokurov the guest of honour.
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NewsLesbian & Gay fest reveals line-up
Over 100 titles will screen at the 27th edition of the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which runs March 14-24.
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NewsRome Film Festival to overlap AFM
The festival and market are to both expand by one day - but will clash with AFM.
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NewsJeonju names int'l Competition jury
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) has announced award-winning Kazakhstani film-maker Darezhan Omirbayev will head its International Competition jury this year.
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NewsNorthwest to open CPH PIX
The fifth edition of Danish film festival CPH PIX will open with the Danish premiere of Michael Noer’s film Northwest.
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Second British Film Festival coming to Kurdistan
The second British Film Festival will be held in Iraq’s Kurdistan region this month. A programme of films, screening in Erbil, will celebrate British cinema as well as the growing relationship between Kurdistan and the UK.New this year, the festival will also show some shorts and medium-length films by Kurdish ...
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NewsSlim pickings for EFM buyers
A slow EFM punctuated by just a handful of commercial must-haves and a subdued reaction to the festival selection turned hopeful thoughts to France and the promise of Cannes.
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NewsOdessa launches industry platform
This year’s edition, which will be held during the 4th Odessa International Film Festival (OIFF) from July 12-20.
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NewsEye On Films goes to Brasil
EoF now has over 80 partners, among them 45 festivals and 39 distributors.
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NewsFirst Hand reels in doc deals
Among the deals, Kinosmith has taken Canadian rights to hard-hitting doc Shadows of Liberty [pictured], which has also sold to DBS TV in Israel.
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NewsScreen International partners in Cannes members club
Screen International is one of the partners in a new members club and entertainment venue being launched at Cannes 2013.
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NewsSND fashions YSL deals
Production starring Pierre Niney [pictured] as the legendary fashion designer is due to start rolling in May.
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NewsBackstreet’s Back with Pulse feature
EXCLUSIVE: Pulse Films arrives at the Berlinale with all-access doc about the world’s best-selling boyband [pictured].
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NewsNielsen flies to sci-fi Exodus
EXCLUSIVE: Swedish-Danish producer Richard Georg Engström and Danish director Tommy Ipsen are at the EFM to promote their €4m English-language sci-fi project [pictured].
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NewsEvokative Films evolves into international sales consultancy
EXCLUSIVE: Company’s founder Stephanie Trepanier [pictured] is at the EFM repping SXSW title Rewind This! and two new projects.
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NewsFuture of Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund secured
This year’s Berlinale programme features two WCF-funded films: Harmony Lessons and Workers.