Category: Festivals
Cairo International Film Festival 45th Edition: Bridging Cultures and Celebrating Cinematic Excellence
The Cairo International Film Festival #CIFF45 concluded its monumental 45th edition on Friday, November 22, 2024, with an electrifying closing ceremon [...]
“Like ‘Black Mirror’ without the technologies”: Tallinn filmmakers discuss working in exile
Filmmakers exiled or displaced from their home countries should not let perfection be the enemy of progress on novel projects, according to spea [...]
Rotterdam adds 11 films to Harbour, Limelight and Bright Future strands
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has added 11 titles to its Harbour, Limelight and Bright Futures strands ahead of its 54th edition, [...]
Romanian tragicomedy ‘The New Year That Never Came’ scoops best film at Cairo film festival
Bogdan Mureșanu’s The New Year That Never Came, a tragicomedy set on the brink of revolution in 1989 Romania, has won the Golden Pyramid for bes [...]
‘Trains’ Wins 2 Prizes, ‘Chronicles of the Absurd’ & More Earn Awards At International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
Trains, the Polish documentary that offers “a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, a [...]
Finnish series project ‘The Women I Think About At Night’ leads TV Beats winners at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Finnish drama series project The Women I Think About At Night headed the winners at the TV Beats Co-Financing Market, part of the Industry@Talli [...]
Bleecker Street acquires US rights to David Mackenzie’s TIFF premiere ‘Relay’
Bleecker Street has acquired US rights to David Mackenzie’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) premiere Relay starring Riz Ahmed, Lily J [...]
There’s a crisis in self-censorship by documentary institutions, says IDFA debate
International festival heads came together at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) to debate their role at a time of increasi [...]
Spike Lee to head jury of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea film festival
Spike Lee is set to preside over the main jury of the upcoming Red Sea International Film Festival (December 5-14).
The Oscar-winning US filmmak [...]
European blockbusters are an “endangered species” says European Audiovisual Observatory report
European blockbusters are “an endangered species” according to novel research which shows that a dwindling number of European features are attra [...]