Latest festival news – Page 341
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NewsDistributors discuss festivals, critics and DSM in Rome
Talent wishlists also on the agenda during market panel.
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NewsSingapore Film Festival reveals 2015 line-up; drops closing film
The festival will screen 146 films from 51 countries, and will honour Mohsen Makhmalbaf (pictured) with a five-film tribute.
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NewsStockholm unveils 2015 line-up; Ai Weiwei to attend
Full line-up of the Stockholm film festival includes feature and documentary competition line-ups.
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News'Invade', 'The 33' named AFI FEST centrepiece galas
Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next and Patricia Riggen’s The 33 starring Antonio Banderas have been added to this year’s AFI FEST.
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NewsBritish boom at Mexican festivals
Two strong British programmes are running at top Mexican film festivals this month.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival reveals 2015 attendance figures
Diminishing screen sizes and closure of a key venue led to 4% dip in numbers, festival director Clare Stewart tells ScreenDaily.
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News'Chevalier' wins best film at BFI London Film Festival
The Witch wins best debut; Sherpa wins best documentary.
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NewsMeryl Streep named Berlinale 2016 jury president
It marks the first time the Oscar-winning US actress has been a juror at a film festival.
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NewsFilm Bazaar unveils line-up of 19 projects
Co-production Market to feature new projects from Kanu Behl, Aditya Vikram Sengupta and Nandita Das, along with Ritesh Batra’s first project as a producer.
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News'Immortal', 'Walnut Tree' win at Busan
Iranian filmmaker Hadi Mohaghegh’s Immortal and Walnut Tree from Kazakhstan’s Yerlan Nurmukhambetov were presented with the New Currents Awards at the close of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) on Saturday night.
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News'Shameless,' 'Assassin' for Asian World festival
EXCLUSIVE: The new Los Angeles festival will open with South Korea’s The Shameless and close with Taiwan’s foreign language Oscar submission The Assassin.
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NewsBritish Urban Film Festival appoints Deacon, Ali, Fontaine
The trio join the board of the festival, which aims to increase the heritage of British diversity.
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NewsIDFA unveils 2015 competition titles
George Gittoes’s Snow Monkey (pictured) and Nick Read’s Bolshoi Babylon among the 15 titles in competition.
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NewsLeipzig to host Mansky, Belc, Gordillo world premieres
New films by Vitaly Mansky, Alexandru Belc and Joseph Gordillo are among the world premieres in competition at this year’s DOK Leipzig (Oct 26 - Nov 1).
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NewsProtests and Chantal Akerman tribute kick off BFI London Film Festival
Feminist protesters jumped the barriers at the premiere of Suffragette.
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NewsAaron Sorkin to receive Israel Film Festival award
The Israel Film Festival in Beverly Hills is giving its film and television achievement award to the the Steve Jobs screenwriter.
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NewsRyan's Ithaca set for festival premiere
Meg Ryan’s directorial debut will get its world premiere at the Middleburg festival, which will also screen several foreign language film Oscar contenders.
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NewsTalent agent Richard Cook calls for film fund/festival rethink
Leading European talent agent Richard Cook has called for a radical re-thinking of both the European film festival system and of public funding bodies like Eurimages and MEDIA.
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NewsElad Keidan's 'Afterthought' wins at Haifa Film Festival
Other winners include Venice title Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me and documentary Rabin In His Own Words.
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NewsIceland’s 'Rams' wins at Zurich
Mexico’s Kings of Nowhere wins doc prize; Thank You For Bombing wins Switzerland, Germany, Austria award.