How can a filmmaker’s tools shape their creative trajectory? What does it mean to share this equipment with other practitioners? We’re excited to release the first film in the MPB: The Next Shot series. The project, made in collaboration with MPB – […]
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Tony Scott's Crimson Tide, a standout in the Simpson/Bruckheimer action genre, features strong performances from Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington amidst a nuclear crisis. Hans Zimmer's influential score set a new standard for action films, blending various musical elements and establishing a powerful, enduring theme that transformed film scoring. (Generated by AI.)
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For the first time, is cooperating with the Beirut Shorts International Film Festival and will present a jointly curated programme to young audiences, with films that premiered in the Kplus and 14plus competitions in the last year [...]
OSCAR PREDICITONS ROUND TWO: BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION
Two weeks ago MTFB began Oscar predictions for 2026 with, of course, an emphasis on TFF #52 contenders. Today we go back and update the predictions for Best Picture and Direction. These predictions will include the films current ranking as well as its position from two weeks back. TFF #52 films are in...
The opening of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s main exhibition, titled “Plot Twist (the science fiction change)”, the opening festivities of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, titled “Everything Must Change. Radical Intelligence. Saloniki 9,” and the special screening of the 1960s gem "Grand Prix" held with the support of OPAP, member of Allwyn.
The opening of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s main exhibition, titled “Plot Twist (the science fiction change)”, the opening festivities of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, titled “Everything Must Change. Radical Intelligence. Saloniki 9,” and the special screening of the 1960s gem "Grand Prix" held with the support of OPAP, member of Allwyn.
On Saturday, November 1st, at the Pavlos Zannas theater, the audience of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival had the opportunity to attend a fascinating masterclass, titled “Casting in the Age of Technology. Finding the Soul of a Story.” The masterclass is part of the new collaboration between the Festival and the International Casting Directors Association (ICDA), in an attempt...
Before Chloe Zhao and Kore-eda Hirokazu sat down for their Tokyo International Film Festival conversation, they had each been crying over the other’s work. Kore-eda watched Zhao’s “Hamnet” in a small screening room with just one other person, grateful no one else was there to see his tears. “I couldn’t stop crying,” the Japanese auteur […]
The five participants for the second cohort of the Film Frontier Global Networking Program, who will receive 18 months of tailored support to advance their international careers, have been unveiled. Directors Kaneko Yurina, Kusano Natsuka, Takahashi Sota and Fujimoto Akio, along with producer Yoshihara Hiroyuki, were revealed at an announcement event held during the 38th […]
Alfonso Cuarón’s sun-drenched odyssey of youth, desire, and disillusionment still feels urgent more than two decades later © by film critic Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI)
Freedom, flesh, and the road: The enduring power of the Mexican film ‘‘Y Tu Mamá También’’ (2001) directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
“Freedom, if pursued without awareness, can become just another...