At Aesthetica, the boundaries between creative disciplines have always been deliberately blurred, and in 2026, the Festival’s New Music Programme takes this philosophy further, bringing together the worlds of music, film and games across three days of live performance, masterclasses, […]
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Maggie Gyllenhaal delivered a message on behalf of Ellen Burstyn before the 93-year-old acting legend took the stage at the Venice Film Festival to receive the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. “Ellen asked me to let you know that she recently took a fall,” Gyllenhaal said from the podium. “She’s OK, but she is […]
By Ramona Flume and Lucy Spicer There’s a particular kind of magic that happens once September hits: The air turns crisp, golden hour creeps in earlier every day, cozy sweaters get pulled out of storage, and the holidays always seem to be right around the corner. Everything about the season is marked by change — […]
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When Pamela Anderson was diagnosed with hepatitis C in the late ’90s, there was no cure. “It was a death sentence. That’s what my doctor told me — that I probably had around 10 years to live,” the “Baywatch” star recalled in a moving speech at the amfAR Gala in Venice. “I’m sure that colored […]
French actor and director Louis Garrel, who gained international fame starring in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers,” is at the Venice Film Festival with a film by another Italian auteur, Nanni Moretti’s “It Will Happen Tonight.” The romantic drama, which is competing for the prestigious Golden Lion, stars Garrel as Matteo, the male lead of a […]
A barefoot monk in a red robe walks the length of San Sebastian’s La Concha, pauses beneath the concrete rooms of Chillida Leku and stands before the crashing wall of the Peine del Viento. He is Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker, and in “Dust,” the 11th installment of the director’s “Walker” series, his slow procession moves through […]
Korean sales house Finecut has closed a string of international deals for three festival titles, including Hong Sangsoo’s Locarno prizewinner “Nowhere to Lay My Eyes,” ahead of the Toronto Film Festival. The film marks Hong’s 35th feature. It competed in the Concorso Internazionale at the 79th Locarno Film Festival and picked up three awards: the […]
The Tokyo International Film Festival will introduce two new competitive awards, a Southeast Asia-focused section and a prize honoring women in cinema. The Nippon Cinema Now section will award a Best Film prize and a Special Jury Prize this year, with a jury combining Japanese and international industry figures. TIFF said the awards are meant […]
Utah filmmaker Erick Lozano talks about learning through trial by fire, building the right collaborators and making the film before everything feels perfect.