Latest festival news – Page 437
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NewsFor No Good Reason to open London International Animation Festival
Charlie Paul’s biopic of British artist Ralph Steadman is one of three feature films showing at this year’s edition, which runs Oct 25-Nov 4.
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NewsLeos Carax's Holy Motors wins big at Sitges Film Festival
Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers picks up two awards, including Best Actress for Alice Lowe, while Jennifer Lynch’s Chained wins Special Jury Award.
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News25th IDFA to screen 317 titles including 97 world premieres
Programme for the 25th anniversary of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam includes 64 Dutch productions.
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NewsGlobal Film Initiative picks up Busan trio
The Global Film Initiative has picked up three films that screened at the recent Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) for North American distribution - 111 Girls, Beijing Flickers and Shyamal Uncle Turns Off The Lights.
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NewsKayan, 36 take New Currents awards at close of Busan fest
The 17th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) wrapped yesterday (Oct 13) with a record of more than 221,000 admissions.
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NewsAbu Dhabi Film Festival underway in style
Stars attend gala opening at Emirates Palace, Richard Gere teases potential feature in the region.
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NewsHarvey Weinstein slams piracy in LFF keynote
US film producer Harvey Weinstein singled out Apple and Google in an attack on piracy as part of his keynote speech at the 56th BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsDavid Magee, Jim Hart and Susanne Schneider to participate in éQuinoxe screenwriters workshop
11th éQuinoxe Germany Screenwriters’ Workshop takes place this week in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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NewsAmerican Film Festival to honour Schatzberg, Anderson
Third edition of the Wroclow, Poland-based festival to take place Nov 13-18.
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Juries revealed for Abu Dhabi Film Festival
The juries have been selected for the sixth Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
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NewsJohn Appel's Wrong Time Wrong Place to open 25th IDFA
To mark the 25th anniversary of the festival, the film [pictured] will also screen in 25 cinemas throughout the Netherlands on the same night.
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NewsRome Film Festival to feature 59 world premieres
Seventh edition of festival, which runs Nov 9-17, will be bookended by Waiting For The Sea and Una Pistola En Cada Mano.
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NewsRome's Alice in the City becomes autonomous, part of bigger initiative
Programme includes Kirikou trilogy finale and Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 [pictured].
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NewsWorld premiere of Khudojnazarov's Waiting For The Sea to open Rome Film Festival
Director, screenwriter, and author Jeff Nichols [pictured] also announced as chair of International Jury that will award the films in Competition.
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NewsKosovo makes strides to develop film industry
The fourth edition of the international film festival PriFest in Kosovo’s capital city of Prishtina, from Sept 24-Oct 1, was the right platform to survey the state of film scene in Europe’s youngest country.
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NewsHarvey Weinstein to keynote as part of LFF’s industry programme
Ben Roberts, Roger Michell, David Kosse, Andrew MacDonald, Julia Wrigley, Paul Brett also among speakers.
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NewsSawsan Badr to receive lifetime award at Abu Dhabi festival
The sixth Abu Dhabi Film Festival will award Egyptian actress Sawsan Badr a lifetime achievement award.
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NewsBeasts wins Golden Puffin at Reykjavik
Guests at the Icelandic event included Susanne Bier, Marjane Satrapi and Dario Argento.
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NewsWinners revealed at 20th Filmfest Hamburg
Dolan, Shortland, Glasner among winners at 20th anniversary edition of Filmfest Hamburg.
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NewsShadow Dancer wins big at Dinard
James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer was the big winner at the 23rd edition of Brittany’s Dinard British Film Festival.