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Film Festival Watch: Catch These 13 Sundance Institute–Supported Films at the 2025 Hot Docs Festival

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We’re huge fans of shining a spotlight on the documentaries that empower, enlighten, and push boundaries here at the Sundance Institute. The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, North America’s largest doc fest, is wholeheartedly dedicated to this cause. In Toronto every spring, this year’s Hot Docs Festival will run from April 24 to May […] The post Film Festival...

San Luis Obispo Film Festival to Feature Neil Young, Daryl Hannah and Jay Duplass

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At a time when film festivals — and movies in general — seem to be struggling to reach audiences, the San Luis Obispo Intl. Film Festival appears to be thriving. The fest, which runs April 24-29, received over a thousand submissions this year, a record for the festival. This year, the Central California Coast town […]

Little Siberia

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Antti Tuomainen is one of my favourite living writers – the Finn writes magnificently quirky stories which tend to see fairly dull lead characters’ mundane lives suddenly being thrown out of kilter by some unfortunate event and then them wrestling to try to bring things back under control. In Little Siberia, the fairly dull lead […] The post Little Siberia first appeared on...

La Cache

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Released in the English-speaking world as The Safe House, Lionel Baier’s La Cache is set in the period of civil unrest in France in 1968 and tells the story of a young boy hiding away in his grandparents’ apartment in Paris. While I haven’t seen it, reviews suggest it has an interesting tone bridging between […] The post La Cache first appeared on movie-wave.net.

HAWK’S FILMS ARE QUARTER-FINALISTS AT WIDESCREEN FILM AND MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL IN TORONTO

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  HawkMedia Studios’ Eaten by the Sea and Winter Shadows on New Snow and Wind in the Old Oak Tree were just awarded QUARTER-FINALIST status at the WideScreen Film and Music Video Festival in Toronto, Canada. Eaten by the Sea An experimental music film produced by HawkMedia Studios. The song, EATEN BY THE SEA, is performed by Trevor Tanner, the former lead singer of The Bolshoi,...

Karlovy Vary IFF Reveals John Garfield Retrospective, Visual Identity, and More Details About Its Upcoming Edition

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  We are excited to share the first details about the upcoming 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4–July 12, 2025).     The Life and Times of John Garfield   The 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will feature an exclusive tribute to 1940s American screen star John Garfield.    “We...

Annecy Festival 2025 Official Selection announced

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The Festival press conference, organised by the CNC, has just ended. Mickaël Marin, CEO of CITIA, and Marcel Jean, Artistic Director, presented the Official Selection, Screening Events, the new features for 2025 and other highlights of this year's progamme, which will be held from 8th to 14th June. “After a historic 2024 edition, with a record attendance of 17,400 badgeholders, and all...

JOHNY Mera Naam/JOHNY Is My Name... When the realities of life cross the intensity of fiction, a masterpiece appears.

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    A dramatised documentary in making: A small regional train is moving through the tiny little villages in Switzerland. A curious boy along with a born adventurer, the Forever Young Man... They set out on a quest for discovery. Inside stories are unfold. Tales of shattered dreams whisper in silence A larger-than-life tale from the real-life spectrum....

2025 Cannes Film Festival: Lynne Ramsay & Saeed Roustayi Added to Palme d’Or Competition – Ethan Coen in Midnight

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The competition section films vying for the Palme d’Or will finally have moved from the initial selection of nineteen to twenty-one with Thierry Frémaux inviting Lynne Ramsay (Die, My Love) for her third trip to competition and Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustayi (The Woman And The Child) for a second helping.
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