Latest festival news – Page 464
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NewsTwilight Portrait wins Golden Alexander in Thessaloniki
Festival shows a strong 160+ films and shows little impact of Greek financial crisis.
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NewsArirang wins inaugural Brisbane documentary prize
South Korea’s Kim Ki-duk has won Australia’s richest documentary award with Arirang, six months after taking the top prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
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NewsThessaloniki industry award winners include Frantzis' Virus
Works in Progress award goes to Annemarie Jacir’s When I Saw You.
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NewsCPH: DOX winners include Ben Rivers' Two Years At Sea
The year’s winners of the eight competition awards at Copenhagen’s CPH: DOX festival were announced at the festival’s closing gala at the city’s Teater Bremen.
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NewsAmerican Film Festival in Wroclaw to open with Solondz's Dark Horse
Todd Solondz and Joe Swanberg to attend for retrospectives.
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NewsTurin to be bookended by Moneyball, Albert Nobbs
Competition focuses on first, second and third films.
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NewsEstonia’s Black Nights unveils competition line-up
Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin, Wojciech Smarzowski’s Rose and Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist are amongst the competition titles at the 15th edition of Estonia’s Black Nights Festival which runs November 18-30.
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NewsBristol Encounters to spotlight Irish animation talent
The festival has teamed up with the Irish Film Board to showcase Irish animation talent.
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NewsNashen Moodley named as new director of Sydney Film Festival
The head of programming at the Durban International Film Festival is to replace Clare Stewart who has taken on the role of head of exhibition at the BFI, which includes running the London Film Festival.
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NewsViennale closes with attendance up, 120 sold-out screenings
Award winners include Michael, Der Prozess, El lugar mas pequeno, Yastasto.
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NewsDulac reveals further details of new Paris festival
Sophie Dulac, distributor and President of the new Paris Film Festival, and festival GM Isabelle Svanda, are attending AFM drumming up support for their new Paris Film Festival (June 6-12).
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NewsChinese Take Away wins best film, audience prize in Rome
Noomi Rapace wins best actress in Babycall, best actor goes to Guillaume Canet in Une Vie Meilleure.
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NewsWide sells Oliver Sherman for US; Eye on Films network expanding
EoF adds two features, closes distribution deals, announces Brussels meeting.
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NewsJessica Chastain, Sigourney Weaver amongst jurors at Marrakech
The Marrakech Film Festival, which runs December 2-10, will be bookended by Moroccan films The Rif Lover and Death For Sale.
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NewsTurkey's Malatya Film Festival unveils line-up
Now in its second edition, the festival will run November 18 to 24 with the introduction of a new national film award.
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NewsLisa Aschan, Jane Magnusson among nominees for Stockholm Film Fund
She Monkeys director among five women nominated for new $750,000 (SEK 5m) production grant
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NewsDoha Tribeca Film Festival boosts Arab industry
Behind its glitzy exterior, the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) is providing a genuine platform for Arab film-makers and helping to create a local industry.
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NewsCzech director Martin Marecek big winner in Jihlava
Czech director Martin Marecek’s Solar Eclipse was the evening’s big winner at the weekend’s awards ceremony of the 15th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival which was followed by a screening of Jafar Panahi’s This Is Not A Film.
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NewsUntouchable wins grand prize, best actor awards at Tokyo fest
Other winners include The Woodsman And The Rain, Play, Albert Nobbs, Kora and When Pigs Have Wings.
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NewsHasta La Vista wins in Valladolid
Karma films gets cash prize towards distribution; The Snows of Kilimanjaro takes second prize.