Latest festival news – Page 60
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NewsTurkey’s Antalya film festival cancelled amid censorship battle (exclusive)
Documentary ‘The Decree’ (‘Kanun Hukmu’) is at the centre of the row.
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NewsWang Bing, Leonor Teles, Werner Hezog and Frederick Wiseman titles head to Doclisboa 2023
The Portuguese festival showcases documentaries from around the world.
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NewsAFI Fest line-up includes world premiere of ‘Freud’s Last Session’
The 141 titles set to screen include 18 of this year’s international feature Oscar submissions.
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NewsArtificial intelligence talk to open the Geneva Digital Market
The Geneva Digital Market runs as part of the Geneva Film Festival in early November.
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NewsFilmfest Hamburg’s Albert Wiederspiel and Kathrin Kohlstedde on their final edition together
After 21 years at the helm, festival director Wiederspiel steps down after this year’s edition.
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NewsHelge Albers on the ‘broad spectrum’ of features supported by Hamburg’s MOIN film fund
Filmfest Hamburg has 17 films funded by MOIN screening at the festival.
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NewsGerman industry to debate navigating streamer buy-out deals at Filmfest Hamburg
The festival’s full Industry Days programme will take place from October 2-6.
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NewsKyiv festival returns to Hamburg to present Ukrainian film competition
‘Festival within a festival’ opens with Anna Buryachkova’s Venice’s Orizzonti Extra title Forever-Forever
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NewsTokyo reveals 20 world premieres among 2023 competition titles
The full lineup has been unveiled for the festival’s 36th edition.
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NewsReykjavik film festival celebrates 20th anniversary
Source: RIFF ‘Solitude’ Reykjavik International Film Festival (September 28-October 8) is planning a busy 20th edition, with honorary awards going to Isabelle Huppert, Luca Guadagnino, Vicky Krieps, Nicolas Philibert, Luc Jacquet and Catherine Breillat, who will all come to the Icelandic capital. A delegation from Cannes will ...
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NewsGoodfellas president Vincent Maraval says industry “needs new distributors”
Maraval was speaking at the San Sebastian International Film Festival’s (SSIFF) Creative Investors Conference.
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NewsBaz Luhrmann to head Red Sea jury
The Red Sea International Film Festival runs November 30 – December 9.
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NewsNine Spanish and Latin American titles to look out for at San Sebastián
Films by Carolina Markowicz, Isabel Coixet, Jaione Camborda and Isabel Herguera all have international potential.
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News‘Low Rider’, ‘A Winter’s Journey’ among BFI London Film Festival Works-in-Progress showcase
The in-person event takes place on October 7 at London’s Picturehouse Central.
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NewsGu Xiaogang, Mouly Surya to receive Tokyo’s Kurosawa Akira Award
Previous recipients include Steven Spielberg, Yoji Yamada and Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
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News‘Scarborn’ wins top prize at Polish Film Festival as local filmmakers voice support for Agnieszka Holland
Closing ceremony of festival in Gdynia sees Polish film community speak up against “awful hatred” directed at Holland in recent weeks.
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NewsJames Norton talks strikes at San Sebastian: “Crews are making the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf”
The actor was speaking at a San Sebastian Film Festival press conference for Noah Pritzker’s ’Ex-Husbands’
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NewsPolish arthouse cinemas refuse to show propaganda spot before screenings of Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Green Border’
Deputy interior minister announced last week that 30-second spot would be shown before ‘Green Border’, describing the Venice prize winning film as a ‘disgusting lampoon’
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NewsSan Sebastian opens with tribute to Hayao Miyazaki
”I adore his cinema,” said festival director José Luis Rebordinos of Hayao Miyazaki. ”He is in my list of all-time favourite directors.”
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NewsVietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival to launch in 2024
Vietnam’s economic hub will host the festival’s first edition in April 2024.