Here, at Aesthetica we celebrate creativity in all its forms, and earlier this November 2025 we closed out our 15th annual BAFTA-Qualifying film festival in our hometown of York, UK. We delivered a five-day showcase of storytelling, performance and innovation […]
The post Driving UK Culture Forward: Aesthetica Film Festival & the Global Creative Ecosystem first appeared on Aesthetica...
An emotional, dramatic and epic journey from those who built the sky to a future of a thousand stars—a last embrace held until the end. #EpicMusic #Emotional #Cinematic #Orchestral #EpicMusicWorld ? Best experienced on headphones. TRACKLIST 0:00 Mitchell Broom — We Who Built The Sky 4:08 Mitchell Broom — A Future Of A Thousand Stars ✦ Composer — Mitchell Broom • Spotify:...
The international short film and animation festival within Tallinn Black Nights announced the winners of its 2025 edition this Saturday, November 15 at the PÖFF Shorts Award Ceremony.
The winners of the Shorts Live-Action, Animation and National Competitions will all be eligible for qualifying for an Academy Award should they fulfil the academy's requirements.
The PÖFF Shorts' European...
Interview with Ali Vatansever the director of the feature drama LIFELIKE and the co producer Dumitru Alexandru.
The film premiered in Tallinn in main competition at Black Nights Film Festival and we met at the Turkish reception in the Bookstore by the theatre complex.
The story: ABDI(46), a once-aggressive school-bus driver, has grown quieter under the weight of his son’s...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Imagine you’re a rookie film director, you land Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson with her unmistakable New Orleans guile plus a very fine cast including actor Thomas Sadoski for a movie about one of America’s unsung, true-life, gutsy working women? Director Rachel Feldman did just that. But there’s a caveat here… it only took 17...
56th International Film Festival of India 2025 would turn out to be a rich cinematic feast for cinéphiles from India and abroad © film critic Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI) dated 17.11.2025
For cinéphiles around the world, there is a simple benchmark of a worthwhile film festival: whether it offers at least ten truly good films. If this yardstick is applied to the 56th...
Few issues are as widely dissected and discussed within the film business today as the possibilities and consequences of AI technology. When it comes to documentary filmmaking, the discussion takes on a new level of importance, as the form is often tied to journalistic notions of truth and reality. Leading documentarians gathered at this year’s […]
For the past two decades, filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi (“Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness”) has captured his two nieces growing up on camera. As the years pile up, the little girls go from excitedly unwrapping custom Barbie dolls and running carefree amongst playground bars to being weighed down — then beautifully set free — by a […]
France’s Les Films de l’œil Sauvage and Switzerland’s Alva Films have boarded Pedro Speroni’s “Talia After Talia,” produced by Argentina’s El Ojo Silva. The documentary is one of the projects selected for this year’s prestigious IDFA Forum, where it will be presented as part of the pitching projects. The film follows the titular 27-year-old, who […]
(Summary generated by AI.) Death by Lightning, adapted from Candice Millard's book, explores James Garfield’s election and presidency. Michael Shannon stars as Garfield alongside Matthew Macfadyen as assassin Charles Guiteau. Ramin Djawadi’s score showcases a blend of serious drama and wit, offering memorable melodies and touches of humor throughout, creating an impressive and sophisticated...