THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995     I take this opportunity to extend our warmest wishes for a successful new year on the festival circuit. We are working hard on a new version of our platform to better serve our community. Filmfestivals.com was established in 1995 before google existed, turned into a social network in 2006 with a blog platform welcoming festivals and film professionnals with some 120 000 articl...

Diversity at the Oscars and in general in the film industry has become a key to success. The celebration of diversity takes place in Berlin a week after the Berlinale on the last day of the ITB. The Diversity Gala, organised by Tomontour is celebrating Diversity & Inclusion during the ITB including the award ceremony of the ITB LGBTQ+ Tourism Award & LGBTQ+ Pioneer Awardo. For the third time, ITB trade and media visitors, exhibitors, tourism professionals & friends from around the wo...

BIFFes 16, 2025: The flicks, picks and my jinx, Part I Among the 1,000 odd classic films that I had yet to see was an iconic film by the late actor-director-producer Guru Dutt, Kagaz Ke Phool (paper flowers). I had managed to watch his other classic, Pyasa, a few years ago. No restored print of Kagaz Ke Phool was available, till very recently, and when I saw the schedule of the Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes), I found that Kagaz Ke Phool, restored, was slotted for 7.30 pm show ...

  Forty-nine films from 30 countries comprise the 27th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival lineup. The festival runs April 3-6, 2025, in downtown Durham, North Carolina. Film still from MISTRESS DISPELLER. In the NEW DOCS category, 20 features and 15 short films will compete for nine juried awards totaling $45,000 in cash prizes. Full Frame is an Academy Award®–qualifying festival for Documentary Film Short Subject. Festival award winners will be announced at the a...

The programme of the 56th edition is now online! We are delighted to unveil a rich programme of 154 films from 57 different countries. The 129 new films on show include 88 world premieres and 12 international premieres. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to dive into non-fiction cinema, through a rich and diverse range of forms, approaches and subjectivities, offering multiple perspectives on reality and its narratives.   Visions du Réel thus confirms its p...

 The Palm Springs International ShortFest, one of the largest showcases of short-form cinema in North America, will return for its 31st-edition this year from June 24-30, 2025. Sponsored by the City of Palm Springs, this year’s ShortFest will be presented at the Festival Theaters in Palm Springs. In addition to screenings, the ShortFest Forum will occur with classes and s featuring industry representatives, filmmakers, and additional guests. The ShortFest Awards and cash prizes wo...

La Biennale di Venezia announces that the new call for the Venice Gap-Financing Market opens on Monday February 3rd, the deadline for submitting projects is May 1st 2025. The twelfth edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market will be held from 29th to 31st of August 2025, as part of the Venice Production Bridge of the 82nd  Venice International Film Festival (27 August – 6 ...

La Biennale di Venezia / 82nd Venice International Film Festival / Venice Production Bridge on www.labiennale.org / Announcing the program breeding talents and awards that s films in post production from Africa and the Middle East La Biennale di Venezia announces that the new call for Final Cut in Venice opens today Monday March 17th , the deadline for submitting projects is June 9th 2025.   The Final Cut in Venice program will take place...

filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org reommends this call for entry!   The deadline to submit your project to Frontières Co-Production Market 2025 is a month away. Don't miss the opportunity to pitch to major companies and to mingle with the Genre film industry during our various activities! by Sean Knowles   The Co-Production Market will take place in Montreal between July 23rd and July 26th, 2025 in conjunction with the Fantasia International Film Festival. Please no...

BIFFes 16, 2025: The opening, closing, and the team behind the festival Besides showing films, major film festivals have a grand inaugural ceremony and an equally grand closing ceremony. The venue for the BIFFes 16 inauguration was the lawmakers’ abode, the Vidhan Soudha (Legislative Assembly) ramparts. Invited guests were taken there in big, comfortable cars or coaches. On such occasions, the 5-10 leading personalities that made the festival possible are invited (they invite themselves...

VIDEO The Cannes red carpet channel The Cannes Channel  The Cannes 2010 2024 red carpet channel  with best from red carpet moments, conferences, interviews, ambiance and awards. Enjoy! ...     VIDEO red carpet magic recap Photos by Laurent Hou for filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org ...   Un Certain Regard Winners List 2024 Celebrating a cinema of discoveries, Un Certain Regard’s m...

The Cannes Channel  The Cannes 2010 2024 red carpet channel  with best from red carpet moments, conferences, interviews, ambiance and awards. Enjoy! ...

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The 29th Sofia International Film Festival (SIFF) is welcoming its audience from March 13 to 31, 2025. The preliminary program kicks off on March 10 at the Czech Cultural Center with a retrospective of one of the festival’s special guests – Bohdan Sláma. The SIFF program in Sofia continues until April 4. The festival is organized by Art Fest under the patronage of the Sofia Municipality, with the of the Ministry of Culture, the Bulgaria...

From Afghanistan to the Philippines through to Slovenia: the nominations for the International Feature Film Competition 2025   42nd IFFF Dortmund+Köln, 1  – 6 April 2025   Just ahead of International Women’s Day this Saturday, we present the line-up for our International Feature Film Competition for women directors. Black comedies, biting satires and surreal dramas covering topics ranging from family and gentrification to turbo-capitalism. Unexpected angles ...

MFF 42 PROGRAM REVEAL Miami Dade College's Miami Film Festival is SO BACK. This year’s Festival will screen over 199 narratives, documentaries, and short films of all genres, from over 45 countries worldwide including 35 World Premieres, two International Premieres, nine North American Premieres, three U.S. Premieres, 21 East Coast Premieres, and 72 Florida Premieres.  There are so many exciting movies in this lineup, we can't even start to name them bec...

  24 April/2 May 2025 - Udine, Italy, Teatro Nuovo and Visionario   Dedicated to the power of the gaze and the trajectories of the imagination, the image for FEFF 27 once again bears the signature of graphic designer Roberto Rosolin. "Minds are like parachutes: they only work if they're open." Some attribute it to Frank Zappa, some to James Dewar and some to Albert Einstein. But though no one knows who actually said it, no one can dispute that it's true:...

The Bulletin Board ANNOUNCEMENTS / CALL FOR ENTRIES recommended by filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org: Dear filmmakers friends do not miss these Festivals in Focus.     Bruno Chatelin and the Filmfestivals.com Team wish you much success on the festival circuit  Read this online         FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS:                    &nb...

September 2 – 7, 2025 July 1, 2025: Regular Deadline July 15, 2025: Late Deadline The Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival is consistently recognized as one of the "50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee" by MovieMaker Magazine. Thank you! The recurring theme of the annual Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival is "Other Places, Other People"; the festival's purpose is to encourage attende...

Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival 20th edition  will run 2-7 September, 2025 in partnership with filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org September 2 – 7, 2025 July 1, 2025:   Regular Deadline July 15, 2025: Late Deadline Website I  Facebook  I  X I Instagram I profile on filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org I Submit I The Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival is co...

ALOHA PICTURES © Winner First Price Photographer's Award Cannes Film Festival Images Collection by  Alan Schoenauer Carlotti © & Patrick Mascaraque © ALOHA PICTURES © Reproductions interdites All rights reserved 70TH EVENT - 28.05.17  Photographer's Award - The ultimate photo In celebration of its 70th anniversary, the Festival de Cannes launched its Photographer's Award. ...

The Red Sea International Film Foundation (Red Sea IFF) and Vanity Fair Europe are reuniting to host the Women in Cinema Gala, championing the achievements of rising female talent on both sides of the camera who are reshaping the film industry in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Asia and the Arab world. During the event held alongside the 77th Cannes Film Festival at the remarkable Hotel du Cap-Eden- Roc in Cap d’Antibes, the Red Sea IFF and Vanity Fair Europe honoured six women who are fiercely...

The Festival de Cannes and the City of Cannes are gearing up for Paris 2024! Sports personalities and athletes will be the guests of an exceptional evening on Tuesday, May 21, for the premiere screening of Mickaël Gamrasni’s documentary Olympiques! La des Jeux, with its most prestigious ambassador, the Olympic flame!       ...

The 75th Berlin International Film Festival came to a successful close with the Berlinale Publikumstag (Audience Day) on February 23. After the festive Award Ceremony (see full list of award winners) on Saturday evening, where Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love)) by Dag Johan Haugerud was awarded the Golden Bear, thousands of viewers once again flocked to the cinemas on the Berlinale Publikumstag for catch-up screenings of films from the anniversary edition. Interest in the progr...

 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY IN LOS ANGELES   The 20th Annual Event in Los Angeles featuring Italian Motion Pictures, Audiovisuals, Music, Fashion, Tourism and Food will take place from February 23rd to March 1st, on the eve of the 2024 Academy Awards (March 2nd). The event will highlight Italy's longstanding cinematic, lifestyle and artistic legacy and will introduce current Italian productions and excellences to the United States. Under the auspic...