FATHERLAND HAS A TRAILER Many readers of MTFB have already picked up on the notion that Pawel Pawlikowski's Fatherland is right up there as far as films I'm hoping make an appearance at TFF #53.  I was a pretty big fan of his 2018 film Cold War (Thrice Oscar nominated!).  Unfortunately I've never been able to catch his 2013 Oscar winning film Ida (Best Foreign Language Film).  ...

India’s Impact Films has broadened its 2026 Cannes acquisition slate to include titles by Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Kore-eda Hirokazu, and Asghar Farhadi, while also stepping into the Indonesian market for the first time. Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s “All of a Sudden,” acquired from Cinefrance International and Japan’s Bitters End, is the auteur’s first French-language feature, about a care […]

Italian multi-hyphenate Marco Perego — who was recently on the Cannes red carpet as a producer of Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner “Fjord” and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” which scooped the Grand Prix — is on a mission to foster “collaboration in cultural expression” at a time when, as he puts it, indie cinema is “under […]

The 6th Annual IndieX Film Fest concluded on May 30 at Regal LA Live in Los Angeles with the presentation of its 2026 Annual Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in independent short filmmaking from around the world. The event brought together filmmakers, actors, producers, and industry professionals from multiple countries for a full day of screenings, […]

Fastnet Film Festival 2026 was a huge success, with packed screenings and lively music sessions. The winners of the various awards were announced, including Best Irish Film for “Wife of the Future” and Best International Film for “VULTURES”.

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The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival has unveiled the competition lineup for its Golden Goblet Awards, spanning five categories across fiction, documentary, animation, and short film. The festival runs June 12-21. The main competition features 12 titles drawn from 15 countries and territories, all of them world premieres. Among the contenders are Indonesia’s “My Own […]

Director Sara Dosa's new film explores a present-day Iceland impacted by climate change and ponders connections to both past and future. The post “Time and Water” Is a Moving Portrait of Family History and a Warming Iceland first appeared on sundance.org.