Two Iranian films have been crowned the main winners of the 38th edition of IDFA, with Mehrdad Oskouei’s “A Fox Under a Pink Moon” taking Best Film in the International Competition and Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani’s “Past Future Continuous” winning Best Film in the Envision Competition. Other winners include Maasja Ooms’s “My Word Against […]
It is no secret how, in recent years, IDFA has become a hotbed for Oscars campaigning for Best Documentary Feature and Best Short Documentary. Timing-wise, the Dutch festival is at the perfect place in the calendar, occurring every year around three weeks before preliminary voting opens for branch members, and festival sections like Signed and […]
Belgian, script writer, director and producer Marc-Henri Wajnberg interviewed by Bruno Chatelin in Tallinn during Black Nights Film Festival on his latest short film/ pilot PROUT Presented in kids animation competition Marc - Henri is in discussion to develop his franchise into a 52 episodes TV Series.
The Cannes Cinema Meetings-Les Rencontres Cinematographiques de Cannes is celebrating the 38 edition and taking place 17-23.11 in Cannes. While the organizers are describing the film festival as not beeing international, the selection it surely is. Just before the movies releases in France the films are screened in the 6 movie theaters of Cannes and Cannes La Bocca, giving cinephiles a rare...
Max Walker-Silverman’s debut feature, A Love Song, impressed with its combination of gorgeous cinematography and heartfelt performances. His follow-up, Rebuilding (which I reviewed out of the 2025 Middleburg Film Festival), showcases identical strengths in a brand-new story, set as before in the director’s native Colorado. Starring Josh O’Connor (La Chimera) as Dusty, a divorced dad […]
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The AFM Sessions’ featured panels on November 12th & 13th brought together thought leaders to discuss topics such as new models of financing, AI, as well as the arthouse and horror genres; all speaking at the Fairmont Century Plaza. Below we’ve included highlights from the speakers
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Yale in Hollywood has revealed Jennifer Beals and Roshan Sethi as honorees for its sixth annual virtual film festival, set to run Dec. 4-6. Beals will receive the festival’s 2025 Career Achievement Award, while Sethi will be presented with the Queer Voice Award. Both honorees will accept their awards at the Yale in Hollywood Fest […]
The Cannes Cinema Meetings-Les Rencontres Cinematographiques de Cannes is celebrating the 38 edition and taking place 17-23.11 in Cannes. While the organizers are describing the film festival as not beeing international, the selection it surely is. Just before the movies releases in France the films are screened in the 6 movie theaters of Cannes and Cannes La Bocca, giving cinephiles a rare...
“Violence begets violence, and the blood of one generation calls for the blood of the next.” That is the warning at the heart of Greek mythology’s House of Atreus. After Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to win favor from the gods in the Trojan war, his wife Clytemnestra killed him in retribution. […]
Awards season is heating up, and the International Documentary Association just dropped its nominations for the 41st IDA Documentary Awards — with several Sundance Institute–supported films taking center stage. Apocalypse in the Tropics leads the surge with four nominations, while Brittany Shyne’s Seeds, which took home the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2025 […]
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