Latest festival news – Page 6
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      NewsTessa Ross to headline BFI London Film Festival 2025 Industry Forum
Forum will hold panels on festivals, distribution, and literary adaptations.
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      NewsSan Sebastian opens with calls for end to violence in Gaza and Ukraine, warm tribute to Esther García
“There’s much to do, but not one step back, sisters,” said Garcia of Spain’s pioneering female producers.
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      NewsBusan 2025: Screen’s dailies
Browse Screen International’s daily editions from the 2025 Busan International Film Festival and Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM).
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      NewsDark Sky Films snaps up ‘CAMP’ ahead of Fantastic Fest world premiere
EXCLUSIVE: “Girl horror” will screen at Sitges, SXSW Sydney.
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      NewsBusan, LFF title ‘Singing Wings’ acquired for world sales
EXCLUSIVE: Hemen Khaledi’s documentary will also play at Zurich film festival.
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      NewsRome Film Festival unveils 2025 line-up; Asif Kapadia’s ‘Kenny Dalglish’ to world premiere
Festival runs October 15-26.
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      News‘Hamnet’ to close Tokyo film festival as gala, animation line-ups revealed
Yoji Yamada’s ‘Tokyo Taxi’ set at the festival’s Centrepiece gala.
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      NewsPingyao reveals 2025 lineup of Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons
The festival has also unveiled its gala selection.
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      NewsEast–West co-production market Connecting Cottbus unveils 2025 line-up
Line-up includes projects by Kazakhstan’s Assel Aushakimova, Belarus-born Darya Zhuk and Ukraine’s Tonia Noyabrova.
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      NewsFrance selects Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’ as Oscar submission
Feature selected by 11-member committee, was one of five shortlisted finalists.
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      News1-2 Special snaps up TIFF premiere ‘Erupcja’ starring Charli XCX
Fledgling arthouse distributor swoops in latest buy.
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      NewsJafar Panahi to receive lifetime achievement award from the Rome Film Festival
EXCLUSIVE: Award will be presented at festival by Oscar-winner Giuseppe Tornatore.
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      News‘The Voice Of Hind Rajab’ to open inaugural Doha Film Festival
Kaouther Ben Hania’s film won the Silver Lion at Venice.
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      News‘Hamnet’ wins 2025 TIFF People’s Choice Award
The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue wins doc award.
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      NewsTIFF at 50: Deepa Mehta on her first memory of feeling Canadian
Mehta’s first film to screen at the festival was ‘Sam & Me’ in 1991.
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      News‘The Road Between Us’, rescue mission doc at centre of TIFF controversy, to get US release
Film to open in North America on October 3.
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      NewsDOK Leipzig sets Roman Bondarchuk, Gal Rosenbluth projects among 2025 co-pro market selection
Documentary projects by Ukraine’s Roman Bondarchuk, Israel’s Gal Rosenbluth and Germany’s Julia Fuhr Mann among 35-strong line-up at German event.
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      NewsZurich Film Festival unveils 2025 line-up; Russell Crowe to be honoured
Festival has programmed 114 films across multiple sections.
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      NewsWhich films are US buyers targeting as slow Toronto enters second week?
The Testament Of Ann Lee, Couture, Late Fame, Normal in crosshairs.
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      NewsCraig Brewer’s ‘Song Sung Blue’ to close 2025 AFI Fest
39th edition of festival runs October 22-26.
 








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