Latest festival news – Page 4
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NewsGlasgow Film Festival’s 20th edition enjoys rise in audience levels and industry engagement
Cinema admissions were up 4%, while industry attendance increased by 56%.
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News‘When Adam Changes’, ‘Mars Express’ among winners at Japan’s Niigata animation film festival
This year was the second edition of NIAFF.
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NewsHaitian filmmaker Raoul Peck and Canadian DoP Iris Ng to be honoured at Hot Docs
The Canadian documentary festival has also added a new strand to the programme.
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NewsSundance announces 2025 festival dates
Next edition to run January 23-February 2, 2025, in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah.
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NewsFrench composer Philippe Rombi to be honoured at World Soundtrack Awards (exclusive)
Rombi is best known for his collaborations with François Ozon.
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NewsVisions du Réel unveils 2024 line-up with 88 world premieres
The international competition includes films from Sofie Benoot, Adrián Orr and Nicole Vögele.
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NewsDev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’, ‘Bob Trevino Likes It’ among SXSW audience award winners
Austin festival ran March 8-16.
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NewsMehran Tamadon, Tana Gilbert projects among Visions du Réel 2024 industry programme
29 projects to be pitched at Swiss documentary festival’s VdR-Industry section.
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News‘Bob Trevino Likes It’, ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ top SXSW juried award winners
Other winners included Maria Rodríguez Soto in ’Mamifera’ and ‘We Were Dangerous’.
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NewsPalestinian documentary project ‘If These Stones Could Talk’ wins Thessaloniki industry award
Documentary festival’s Agora industry event unveils 2024 prize winners.
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NewsSmart7 title ‘Where Elephants Go’ picked up for sales (exclusive)
Smart7 is a travelling competition across seven European film festivals, that kicks off at Lithuania’s Vilnius IFF Kino Pavasaris.
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NewsHot Docs Forum unveils 19 pitch projects vying for cash prizes
Event runs April 30-May 1 along Hot Docs Festival.
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NewsArgentinian government suspends state funding to national film body INCAA
INCAA backs films, festivals and events, including Ventana Sur and Mar del Plata International Film Festival.
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NewsBerlinale board issues official response to controversial closing night comments
The Berlinale has become embroiled in a furore about the debate around the Israel-Hamas war.
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NewsTwo world premieres among Smart7 travelling festival competition line-up
Seven titles will screen at seven European film festivals, competing for a €5,000 prize.
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News‘Franklin’, ‘Becoming Karl Lagerfeld’ among world premieres at 2024 Canneseries festival
Event focused on drama series runs in parallel with MipTV in Cannes.
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NewsFormer Dogwoof exec launches festival strategy agency Indox with CPH:DOX title (exclusive)
Luke Brawley will offer festival strategy services to filmmakers.
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NewsSpanish rock film ‘Saturn Return’, Mexican drama ‘Radical’ win top awards at Malaga 2024
‘Saturn Return’ won best Spanish film while ‘Radical’ won best Latin American film.
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NewsThessaloniki doc festival responds to weekend attack on trans people with a “loud and clear message of tolerance”
The festival has introduced the Citizen Queer programme this year to celebrate Greece’s recent legalisation same-sex marriage.
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NewsFilmax’ ‘The Sleeping Woman’ rouses buyer interest in Malaga, sells to Germany (exclusive)
The pyschological thriller is about a woman seemingly haunted by the bed-ridden wife of the man for whom she has fallen.