The Festival Beat Summer edition N°1107

The Venice Production Bridge, since 2016, provides opportunities for networking and exchanges for every category of professionals involved in making films. 

The Venice Production Bridge is beeing held at the Excelsior Hotel, 3rd floor, on the Venice Lido (August 29th – September 6 th), and on the Venice Immersive Island for all immersive activities (Lazzaretto Vecchio). Selected panels and events that will take place in the Spazio Incontri at the Excelsior Hotel and in the Spazio Incontri Immersivo at the Venice Immersive Island, will be recorded and made available on the VPB Live Channel Archive. 

For the third year, the Venice Production Bridge will organise the Venice Immersive Market, located on the Venice Immersive Island (Lazzaretto Vecchio island) gathering all our Immersive activities during the Venice International Film Festival. These activities include the presentation of immersive projects of both the Venice Gap-Financing Market and the Biennale College Cinema Immersive through 1-to-1 meetings; panels and networking events dedicated to immersive topics; an Exhibition Area for institutions, public and private funds supporting VR/XR/AR, manufacturers, production, distribution, sales, VFX and post-production companies which are connected to immersive content. 

Also this year, through the European and Non-European VPB Focuses, the Venice Production Bridge will shine a spotlight on Luxembourg & Wallonia-Brussels and Japan. The Focus on Luxembourg & Wallonia-Brussels is supported by Film Fund Luxembourg and Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel and the Focus on Japan is supported by JETRO. 

Additional panels both at the Hotel Excelsior and at the Venice Immersive Island will be hosted within the framework of the VPB Focuses. Meetings, presentations and special events that will take in the framework of the Venice Production Bridge during the 81st are listed below.

 

The Venice Production Bridge is co-financed by the European Commission’s MEDIA Programme.

Photos by Laurent Hou

 

 

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HISPANIC HERITAGE short FILM FESTIVAL Join Us For A Night of short FILMS At the Doral Cultural Arts Center on Saturday, September 14, 2024, from 6:3

Join Us For A Night of short FILMS
HISPANIC HERITAGE short FILM FESTIVAL at the Doral Cultural Arts Center on Saturday, September 14, 2024, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.

Celebrate Hispanic culture through award-winning short films. Join us to enjoy captivating stories with English subtitles. Experience the creativity and diversity of Hispanic filmmakers in a unique cinematic event.

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As its 77th edition draws to a close, the Locarno Film Festival looks forward to a new era, building on past successes and embracing positive change for the future. Locarno77 showed a path forward for the Festival, bringing increased audience numbers (+3.5%) and engagement across the board.

Photo: © Locarno Film Festival / Ti-Press


For 11 days, theaters in Locarno were packed with spectators eager to discover the best of international cinema, while its bars, restaurants, and hotel lobbies were the impromptu sites for dialogue and exchange about the future of film. At the award ceremony on August 17, the powerful Lithuanian drama Akiplėša (Toxic), directed by first-time director Saulė Bliuvaitė, took home the Festival’s coveted Pardo d’Oro in the Concorso Internazionale. The Prix du Public UBS went to Reinas by Klaudia Reynicke, and the Letterboxd Piazza Grande Award to Gaucho Gaucho by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw.

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Mansour Jahani - The IV Moscow Kurdish Film Festival, which will be held in the capital from September 18 to 22, announces the participants of the competition programs. The Feature Film Competition includes 7 full-length films, the Documentary Competition - 8 films, the Short Film Section - 14 feature films and 9 documentaries.

 

 

This year, the festival focuses on intercultural dialogue in general and cooperation with Russia. Continuing the traditions of previous years, as part of the cultural exchange, the festival will once again bring together filmmakers and film lovers from all over the world to show real masterpieces of Kurdish cinema. The geography of the participants is very diverse - the programs include films from 12 countries - Iraq, Turkey, Iran, France, Syria, Canada, the Netherlands, etc. A separate focus is on films about the Yazidis and their ancient Mesopotamian religion. This is also reflected in the festival’s visual concept: the central symbol of this year’s poster is a peacock feather, which is a powerful symbol for the Kurdish people, especially in the context of Yazidism, the ancient ancestral religion of all Kurds. It emphasizes the importance of preserving and popularizing Kurdish culture through cinema. The lilac background is reminiscent of the headscarves traditionally worn by Kurdish women. This element emphasizes the connection with culture and traditions passed down from generation to generation.

The Feature Film Competition includes the experimental film "Mosul, My Home", which is a walking tour of the ruins of Mosul in an attempt to explore the aftermath of war, as well as the energy of the city and its multinational residents; the drama "Transient Happiness", which captured the vulnerability of an idyll; the historical drama 1988, based on real events and telling the story of a gas attack at the height of the Iraqi-Iranian war in the border town of Halabja; the tragic saga The Horse about the hero's attempts to return to his own home after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime; and the sports drama Baghdad Messi, about how a ten-year-old boy with a serious injury experiences an unquenchable passion for football in war-torn Iraq. Also in the program are "Mahsa Laughed" about emigration as a way to escape from social and religious problems, and "Good Day" - the story of Kurdish theater actors..