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  Gropius Bau © Juliane Eirich 2023 The European Film Market (EFM) at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival will open its doors for seven days from February 15 to 21, 2024. Two months before the start of the festival, the stands at the two market venues Gropius Bau and Marriott Hotel are almost already fully booked. Once again, the EFM is expecting more than 11,500 market participants, exhibitors, rights holders, producers, buyers and investors to visit B...

Berlinale Talents Key Visual und Thema für 2024: „COMMON TONGUES - Speaking Out in the Language of Cinema” © Ada Favaron und Imad Gebrael     Language, common language, film language is the theme of the 22nd edition of the talent development initiative Berlinale Talents. It was long unheard of, and yet it is taken for granted today: since the 1920s, there has been sound an thus the spoken word in film alongside visual language. This opened up...

  The work is harder than you ed, the hours longer than you can fathom, the food less than desirable. Then there are the endless forgotten tasks, the emergencies requiring speedy solutions, the hand holding, the adrenalin pumping and the tears sometimes flowing. And then the magic happens. You see the audience laughing, clapping, dancing, mesmerized, and you why you are there. Because you made it happen. Happy New Year & thank you for making the magic happen! The ...

  SEE THE 2024 AGENDA HERE! Meet a few of our featured speakers Alicia Silverston is not Clueless about Marty Callner (or anything else for that matter)         Alicia Silverstone is an American actress who rose t...

Premier film festival streaming platform Entertainment Oxygen (eo), the one-stop shop for indie film festivals and filmmakers, is celebrating the new year with announcement of three new topline international festival partners - Soho London Independent Film Festival (January 25-28, 2024), Auroville Film Festival in India (January 22-28, 2024) and Utah International Film Festival (February 12-17, 2024). CEO/founder eo Apple TungFong comments, We're de...

      us for a transformative two-day event that promises to delve deep into the future of the audiovisual sector in Europe. Book your seats now and enjoy a very special rate. Discover the event This year's edition inovates as a it is intended to be highly participatory, based broadly on Design Thinking principles.  Here is a glimpse at the program (subject to evolve):    Day 1: Insightful Discussions and Expert s Engage with industr...

IFFI 54, 5: IFFILMS, In Retrospect, Part III I continue my views and mini reviews, about films I saw at IFFI 54, held in Goa, during November 20-28, 2023. Toxic An odd love story, Toxic is based on a public swimming pool as its centre-piece. Coming from the Czech Republic, and directed by Stefan Vorzacek, it is the story of a lonely executive, Tomas, who visits the pool as a form of workout, and falls in love with its enticing attendant, Esther. But the affair goes awry with the intervent...

IFFI 54, 4: FILMIFFI, In Retrospect, Part II Continuing my sharing of views and mini-reviews of films screened and seen at the 54th International Film Festival of India. The Zone of Interest We begin with The Zone of Interest, set in Auschwitz. Chronicling the life of a German Commandant, Rudolf Höss, his wife Hedwig, and five children, it shows how attached one can get to a house, garden, orchard and vegetable plot, after taking pain-staking efforts to nurture them make them really ...

IFFI 54, 03: IFFILMS, In retrospect In my last post, I talked about the Competition Films that I saw. Didn’t catch many, but you can never have enough of them. Here, I will move on to the other sections, which, too, had a mix of the very good, the good and the fair. From these, I will begin with the opening film, Catching Dust, which was described in the catalogue as a slow burner thriller. Catching Dust Slow burner it sure was, but the thrills were few and far between. The first thi...

  Last night at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Meryl Streep said, "I am here for my friend Cary Mulligan. If you think of the dimension of all her characters, the emotion is always full and felt, and tucked away and hidden in reserve, her work in Maestro, it’s like the smaller tremors we get here in California..that scene in Maestro on Thanksgiving, we hardly see there faces, it’s hard to see her, but it shakes you with...

  The jury will be made up of João Pedro Rodrigues, Juliette Duret and Lluís Miñarro Five projects by renowned international filmmakers and emerging talents, have been selected for the second edition of VENTURA, the film training, development and co-production platform created by the Enfoques Cultural Association, organiser of the Play-Doc festival in Tui, Galicia. The VENTURA organisation wishes to highlight the enormous quality of the works received, as well as ...

  The meeting place for all forms of documentary   Fipadoc, the first international documentary meeting in , returns from January 19th to 27th in Biarritz for a 6th edition which opens the year and sheds light on winter and the world by sharing and celebrating all forms of documentary storytelling for all screens: from cinema, television, and series, including virtual reality, podcasts with the link to the musical creation.    The plural and unique meeting place in...

  Call for entry MBIFF 21st now open October 3, 2025 Earlybird Deadline November 14, 2025 Regular Deadline December 5, 2025 Late Deadline December 31, 2025 Extended Deadline FILMMAKERS, IT’S YOUR TIME TO SHINE! Submissions are NOW OPEN for the 21st Myrtle Beach International Film Festival, hitting the Grand 14 Theater’s massive 57ft screen April 21-25, 2026! Unleash your wildest stories, boldest docs, or heart-pounding thr...

IFFI 54, 02: IFFILMS in Competition When recalling the films you have seen, over a month ago, the 360-page catalogue is indispensable. I will refer to it, to recap the fare which I could manage to see in the seven days I spent there IFFI is usually held from November 20 to 28, in Panaji, Goa. I always arrive 1-2 days earlier, by train, and then begin watching from the inaugural film, which is the only film screened on the first day. My visit was curtailed because of the invitation from the Re...

International Film Festival of India 54, 01: Glitches galore It was inevitable. Since I had to leave for Mumbai on the 27th of November, to catch my flight to Jeddah, to attend the Red Sea International Film Festival, I had to miss the last two days of IFFI. As if this was not enough, I was unfortunate to catch only the bad to mediocre films shown at the festival. Add to that the pain in the neck arrangements for the press, under the leadership of Ms. Monideepa Mukerjee, the Director General ...

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Dear Friends: This year’s Festival had a special feeling about it. People attended more Films, crowded the discussions, settled in at the VIP Lounge, enjoyed the Filmmaker Happy Hours, Patron's Breakfast, Party with a Purpose and Culinary Cinema like I haven’t seen before. We often talk about building community with like-minded film lovers and I am grateful that this year’s Festival delivered on that promise in a big way. It was palpable. This year we focused o...

RSIFF: Winners Declared, the Festival over, or is it? Red Sea International Film Festival was to be held from 29 November to 09 December. But when we got our invitations to the closing night, it was indicated as 07 December. Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But if you have attended other film festivals, like the Mumbai Film Festival (held by MAMI), you would not be surprised. Actually, it is a great idea. Announce the awards two days before the closing, so that the invited guests do not have t...

Los Angeles,– As the New Media Film Festival® (NMFF) marks its 15th year of innovation and storytelling excellence, anticipation builds for a groundbreaking event on June 5-6, 2024, in the heart of Los Angeles. A prestigious of judges from Marvel, HBO, PBS, BBC, Grammys, Emmys, Simon & Schuster, and Rolling Stone will give out $45,000 in awards and evaluate creator submissions from over 20 countries that explore visions of the future through AI, animation, virtual reality,...

  Fest to Open with the U.S. Premiere of “Wicked Little Letters” and Close with “Ex-Husbands.”   Festival Guests include Griffin Dunne, Jennifer Esposito, Susan Feniger, Gloria Gaynor, Greta Gerwig, Glenn Howerton, Eva Longoria, Jeremy Piven, Philippe Rousselot, Jeffrey Wright and More!     Complete Line-up Includes 40 International Feature Film Oscar Submissions, a Korean Film Focus, Spotlight on James Ivory Films, Talking Pictures, New...

  The competitions for the Lucca Film Festival 2024 are open The engines are already warming up for the twentieth edition of the Festival with the launch of the 3 International Competitions on the FilmFreeway and FestHome platforms: for the Feature Film Competition, 12 films will be selected and will continue the tradition of presenting the best international, independent, and auteur cinema; the 2023 edition saw the triumph of the Chechen film "The Cage is Looking for a Bir...

RSIFF: The Origin-al Don Quixote, in a Ferrari At an average length of 100 minutes, and a 14-hour day, which is what is available to an average person, after ing for sleeping, eating, travel, etc., I should think four. Spot on. RSIFF allowed you to book 4 tickets a day, 48 hours in advance, as the clock clocks. But there are the riders, which mean, “but….”. Shows began only at four o’clock or a little before that, in the afternoon, and continued till late in t...

  The 15th Odesa International Film Festival will take place from July 12 to 20, 2024, in Kyiv and is now open for film submissions to participate in the competitive programs. To submit an application, it is necessary to fill out the online form available on the official festival website and provide all materials specified in the online form by 2:59 PM (Kyiv time) on May 1, 2024. For participation in the National Competition Program, full-length Ukrainian films of all genres,...