Tom Tykwer will soon be opening the 75th Berlin Film Festival with “The Light,” a timely tale in which a deeply dysfunctional German family is saved by its Syrian housekeeper. The German-language film, which Tykwer describes as a “hardcore political” statement, will kick off the Berlinale on Feb. 13 in the turbulent lead-up to the […]
The seventh annual French Riviera Film Festival (FRFF) is pleased to unveil its 2025 official poster, creating this year using AI technology, the announcement was made today by festival co-founders Nicole Goesseringer Muj and Gotham Chandna.
“In the spirit of innovation, we decided to experiment with our poster design this year,” comments Muj. “We wanted to use AI in a...
QUWA screening at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2025, a film by Jade Ipina (co-producer), Jonathan Coronado (sound designer), Ryan C.Grant (director of photography and co-editor) and Catherine Scanlon (co-producer and assistant camera/editor).
Interview by Emmanuel Itier
I was truly taken by surprise by ‘Quwa’, a short film, exploring the history of the Goleta Slough and the...
MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: PREDICTING OSCAR WINNERS: CINEMATOGRAPHY AND MORE
As the Emilia Perez series of provocations and scandals seems to be winding down in intensity, we're starting to see some actual effects regarding what could happen on Oscar night. Here are the first predictions for winners in Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Score and Song. As usual, TFF films are...
Heart Eyes (Josh Ruben, 2025) 3 out of 5 stars Heart Eyes follows the tradition of merging horror and comedy together to create a wildly fun narrative about an infamous “Heart Eyes Killer,” who strikes specifically on Valentine’s Day, targeting couples as they get together for dates, proposals, and everything in between. As the film […]
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Last Days (Justin Lin, 2025) 2 out of 5 stars If you didn’t hear about the death of John Allen Chau in 2018, you can probably imagine the discourse that followed. Chau was the 26-year-old evangelical missionary who was killed when he illegally travelled to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to convert the isolated […]
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The Atlanta Film Society is pleased to present the 2025 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists. Chosen from 1,106 total submissions, the following 138 feature film screenplays, 66 pilots, and 68 shorts represent the top twenty-five percent of all entries.
Courtesy of National Geographic Share RNCI Celebrates Historic Milestone with SUGARCANE’s Academy Award Nomination On January 23, 2025, the Red Nation Celebration Institute (RNCI) officially announced a groundbreaking achievement: SUGARCANE director Julian Brave NoiseCat has become the first Native filmmaker nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category. RNCI...
The Burbank Music Center officially opened its doors on Sunday, February 2nd. The event welcomed musicians, creatives, parents of students, and community supporters.
Hosted by TV personality and PR expert Louisa Sharamatyan, the celebration featured...
We started this year with terrible fires in Los Angeles, devastating the whole local economy and making so many people homeless. So, we needed to recover and start celebrating life again. What a better way but to start the award season with the Grammys and Nathalie Dubois’s DPA gift suite (https://dpagroup.org ) at the Luxe hotel on Sunset (https://www.luxehotels.com ).
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