Latest festival news – Page 434
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NewsSundance’s Film Forward reveals line-up
Touring festival Film Forward has unveiled the titles that will be taken to communities throughout the US and around the world in 2013.
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NewsPirate Bay film to be distributed for free
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay is at the forefront of the pro-piracy movement. It’s only fitting then that new feature doc about them, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, is to be given away for free.
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NewsStockholm’s industry line-up draws record figures
British film-maker Sophie Fiennes and 11 new films from the Nordic and Baltic regions are among the highlights of the industry line-up at this year’s Stockholm International Film Festival.
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NewsBrügger planning controversial "assassination" doc
Controversial Danish journalist and film-maker Mads Brügger, whose exposé of African diamond smuggling in The Ambassador provoked fury and lawsuits, is working on another Africa-set documentary that is set to be equally explosive.
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NewsQuartet, Ginger & Rosa to bookend Torino Film Festival
The 30th edition, which runs Nov 23 to Dec 1, will feature 43 world premieres, 11 international premieres and 13 European premieres.
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NewsDaniel Dencik plans his first dramatic feature about slave trade
Likely controversial project is about slave trading Danish officer in the 1830s.
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NewsHaneke wins in Vienna; Austrian film fund boost
Directors Michael Haneke, Kenneth Lonergan, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel were among the winners at the 50th Viennale.
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NewsBlack Nights Film Festival unveils EurAsia competition line-up
Everyday, Hannah Arendt and Wadjda [pictured] among films in contention.
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Doha's industry talks include conversations with Robert De Niro, Mira Nair
Also, MENA premiere of Argo added to DTFF programme.
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NewsFeng's Back to 1942 revealed as one of Rome's surprise films
Marco Mueller has revealed that the first of the two surprise films at this year’s Rome Film Festival will be the world premiere of Feng Xiaogang’s Back to 1942.The historial epic’s cast, in addition to Chinese stars such as Zhang Guoli, Fan Wei and Chen Daoming, includes Adrien Brody and ...
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NewsLocarno's Chatrian talks about programme plans and Cukor retrospective
Locarno’s new artistic director Carlo Chatrian to continue festival’s “idea of cinema as a meeting place and act of discovery” as he unveils plans to dedicate the 2013 retrospective to George Cukor and announces a reshuffle of selection committee.
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NewsUlrich Seidl pitches doc about sex tourism
Revered Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl’s new feature doc Old Ist Gold is among the projects being presented at CPH: Forum, the coproduction event at CPH Dox in Copenhagen this week.
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NewsCPH: DOX hosts 65 world premieres
With 65 world premieres, 25 international premieres and audience figures expected to be in the region of 50,000, CPH: DOX, the largest documentary festival in Scandinavia, is continuing to grow.
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Empress Road reveals horror slate
Empress Road Pictures has unveiled a slate of horror titles, building on last year’s success with Elevator.
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NewsBlack Nights to give posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award to Theo Angelopoulos
Greek film director died in a car accident this January.
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NewsHoly Motors to kick off Thessaloniki
Expected guests include Bahman Ghobadi, Aki Kaurismaki, Costa Gavras, Cristian Mungiu and Andreas Dresen.
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NewsDoha Tribeca Film Festival announce Arab Film Competition jury and lineup
Fourth edition of the festival, which runs Nov 17-24, will also hold a special showcase of Algerian cinema.
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NewsRome reveal full international jury; add two new films to programme
Timur Bekmambetov [pictured], Chris Fujiwara among jurors at the seventh edition of festival which runs Nov 9-17.
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NewsAmerican Film Festival unveils full lineup
Saftey Not Guaranteed [pictured], Jack and Diane and How To Survive A Plague among titles to screen at the third edition of the festival, which runs Nov 13-18.