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The Festival Beat N°1123

 
THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995  
 
I take this opportunity to extend our warmest wishes for a successful new year on the festival circuit. We are working hard on a new version of our platform to better serve our community. Filmfestivals.com was established in 1995 before google existed, turned into a social network in 2006 with a blog platform welcoming festivals and film professionnals with some 120 000 articles.In the meantime we are busy maintaining the old site and offering some visibility and promotion in our temp dailies. Bruno Chatelin
 
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BERLIN in focus
HUB75 – The new Berlinale Festival Center opens for talks, networking and meetings
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TALKS. MEETINGS. CONNECTIONS. For the 75th anniversary of the Berlin International Film Festival, a new centerpiece has been built near Potsdamer Platz, right next to the red carpet of the Berlinale Palast:  HUB75. This Festival Center is an inviting place for encounters and exchanges. Various events for audiences and film industry professionals will take place here every day. PROGRAMME Feb 14 – 21, 202...
 
 
Christine Vachon, Industry Experts...3 Days to Go till Entertainment Finance Forum in Berlin
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Winston Baker’s Entertainment Finance Forum Berlin returns with a sharp focus on the evolving world of global entertainment finance. This year, we spotlight cutting-edge sales strategies, the surge of international co-productions, and the intersection of creativity and capital in today’s industry. Join top executives and thought leaders as they share actionable insights on securing funding, navigating co-production complexities, and staying authentic while delivering for audience...
 
 
Berlinale Camera 2025: Tribute to Rainer Rother
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At the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, film expert and Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek Rainer Rother will be honoured with the Berlinale Camera. Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle says: “We are honouring Rainer Rother for his many years of work in the service of preserving cinematic history and as a bridge builder between history and contemporary cinema. Under his leadership, the Deutsche Kinemathek has successfully made the living heritage of cinematic art accessibl...
 
 
The Berlinale 2025 Juries
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The International Jury (clockwise): Todd Haynes © Samir Hussein / Wire Image, Nabil Ayouch © Mehdy Mariouch, Bina Daigeler © Pablo Zamora, Bingbing Fan © Chen Man, Rodrigo Moreno © Lucas Charrier, Amy Nicholson © Lee Jameson, Maria Schrader © Christine Fenzl   Competition: The International Jury Once again a multitalented International Jury will decide who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears at the Berlinale 2025. The members of the ...
 
 
EFM Industry Sessions & Producers Hub 2025 360° Perspective: Knowledge, Learning, Exchange and Networking
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© EFM / Juliane Eirich As the first major market of the year, the European Film Market with its EFM Industry Sessions programme (14-18.02.2025) offers the perfect stage to discuss the trends and ideas that will engage the industry in the coming film year. They comprise a diverse industry programme consisting of talks, roundtables, masterclasses and interactive workshops in connection with the DocSalon and...
 
 
Winston Baker returns to EFM with the second edition of the Entertainment Finance Forum
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Berlinale is a few weeks away and our partner Winston Baker will be bringing back their 2nd Annual Entertainment Finance Forum Berlin during @efm_europeanfilmmarket on Friday, Feb 14th! Flashback to the hugely successful forum last year where we heard from @wme, @waypoint_ent, @fifthseason, @telepool_de, @protagonistpictures, @headgearfilms, @stampedeventures and more! Audiences were also treated to a special Fireside Chat with Wendy ...
 
 
 
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in focus
Noree Victoria interviewed for her Directorial Debut: AN ARRANGEMENT- Official Selection of the 2025 SBIFF
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AN ARRANGEMENT at Santa Barbara film festival Interview with Director: Noree Victoria, by Emmanuel Itier Maverick director Noree Victoria is delivering a majestic “tour de force” with this thrilling drama full of unpredictable twists. ‘An Arrangement’ is a pure delight. Actors Bel Deliá, Matt Dellapina and Jessica Damouni are casting a spell of movie magic with their “on the dot” interpretation in this triangle of suspenseful and toxic relation...
 
 
Spider & Jessie @ SBIFF - Interview with the director Dan Kay
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Interview with director Dan Kay by Emmanuel Itier     What a very emotional movie put together by the brilliant and talented Dan Kay. ‘Spider and Jessie’ deals with addiction but on the side of what families of addicts go through and how the trauma remains within for a long time. With this so well-crafted movie Dan manages to let us go through multiple emotions, from tears to joy, from sadness to hope. His cast led by McKenna Grace, Jojo Regina and Jesse Williams will ...
 
 
FOLLOWING HARRY at the Santa Barbara Film Festival - Interview with the director Susanne Rostock
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Interview With director: Susanne Rostock by Emmanuel Itier   When you think you knew everything about Harry Belafonte, here comes Susanne Rostock new documentary on the man who was such a genius, a musical maverick and an activist. This film follows Harry in his last act of life, but what a final Act! Susanne had done another film with Belafonte before, and you can feel the warm energy between her camera and the iconic man he is. As a documentary filmmaker myself I am quite impress...
 
 
Interview with the team behind " Quwa' ": short film screening at SBIFF
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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 historical Chumash island Quwa who was once there. I leave nearby and I drive by the area ...
 
 
The SBIFF Demi Moore retrospective begins tomorrow Friday, February 7th
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The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announces a retrospective for Demi Moore, a celebration of the esteemed actress's distinguished career. The retrospective begins on Friday, February 7th at 5:40 PM PT with a screening of Adrian Lyne's Indecent Proposal. An exclusive in-person conversation with Academy Award®-nominated actress Demi Moore will follow the 2:00 PM FREE screening of Coralie Fargeat's Best Picture nominee The Substance on Sunday,...
 
 
SBIFF Variety Artisans Award Recipients
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VARIETY ARTISANS AWARD honoring Judy Becker – The Brutalist: Production Design Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot: Original Score Clement Ducol and Camille – Emilia Perez: Original Song Nick Emerson – Conclave: Editing Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys: Cinematography Tod Maitland – A Complete Unknown: Sound Pierre-Olivier Persin – The Substance: Hair/Makeup Paul Tazewell – Wicked: Costume Design Erik Winquist – Ki...
 
 
Hope and Heart : Celebrating 40 years of SBIFF on opening night
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  40 Years of SBIFF 2025 OPENING NIGHT: on a rainy night, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) opened its 40th edition with the U.S. premiere of “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,”, offering a much-needed respite after a challenging month marked by devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. Starting on February 4, the festival features 33 world premieres from 60 countries, with over half directed by women. Notable stars expected to attend this milestone celebration in...
 
 
TO KILL A WOLF director interviewed at Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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TO KILL A WOLF is screening at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in the "Festival Circuit Favorites" category February 9 & 10.   This modern re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood is told through the nuanced lens of teenage sexual grooming and is the debut of writer / director Kelsey Taylor. The film is a drama/mystery and has been described as a “haunting modern fairytale” and “Oregon-noir".   TO KILL A WOLF...
 
 
Incandescence at SBIFF Interview with the directors: Velcrow Ripper and Nova Ami.
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As wildfires ravage the planet, a new National Film Board of Canada documentary offers extraordinary stories of survival and adaptation (Image provided by the NFB) Praise to directing partners Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper who are giving a US premiere, at The Santa Barbara International Film Festival, of their very timely documentary: ‘Incandescence’. Be ready to truly feel the heat while watching this mesmerizing and very scary "anatomy of fire”. Nova and Velcro...
 
 
‘I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO DIE’ At the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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  An interview with Star: Ali Gallo    Meet rising Star, Ali Gallo! You might have catch her in ‘Incoming’ or ‘The Sex lives of college girls.’ Ali is the leading actress of the  new dark comedy ‘I hate myself and want to die’ directed by the very talented J.Davis who had directed a little gem: ‘Manson Family Vacation’. Ali Gallo is the young ‘Hayley’ who, with other friends and family members, ar...
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Calling entries for FIPRESCI Grand Prix for the best film of 2024, 70 minutes and more
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  Calling entries for FIPRESCI Grand Prix for the best film of 2024, 70 minutes and more  FIPRESCI extends this invitation to you to film-makers to submit films (70 minutes and above) for the annual FIPRESCI India Grand Prix Award for the year 2024. About the Award: The Grand Prix Award, instituted by FIPRESCI-India (the India chapter of the International Federation of Film Critics: FIPRESCI) seeks to celebrate and recognize outstanding achievements in fiction and non-fiction f...
 
 
LoveYaPa, Review: The mobile phone as Pandora’s Box
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LoveYaPa, Review: The mobile phone as Pandora’s Box Those who are uninitiated might not realise that the title is a variation of siyapa, which means chaos or jiggery-pokery, and that siyapa itself comes from the Urdu word, siyah, meaning black, or dark. Siyapa has been used in the title of a film some years ago. So the makers of LoveYaPa have come up with this three-word composite term, standing for Love Ya and Pa. Translate these three words, and you get Love Or Pa (father). Clever, ve...
 
 
Srilankan film The Other Half, Review: Death, despair and despondency
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Srilankan film The Other Half, Review: Death, despair and despondency In the opening titles, the carries a long message about Srilankans dying of kidney failure, caused by the wide use of contaminated or sub-standard fertilisers and pesticides. As many as 50,000 of them have lost their lives due to such poisoning, and continue to die, making it a tragedy equal to, or perhaps even greater than the Civil War that ravaged the island state in recent decades. This makes you wonder whether a docume...
 
 
Saudi Nights, A Report: The ecstasy and the agony
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Saudi Nights, A Report: The ecstasy and the agony If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain, goes the adage. Since Saudi Arabian films were not coming to India, I went to Saudi Arabia in 2023, to attend the 2nd Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF), in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. There, I saw Saudi Arabian, and many other films, from all over the world, in what was one of the grandest, most hospitable film festivals I have ever attended. And no, I have never ...
 
 
Deva, Overview: Different, not distinguished
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Deva, Overview: Different, not distinguished It is different. Though the central character is an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), and a tough nut at that, the film has a modest littering of corpses and a very few incredible, blood-letting or torture sequences. Based on these very qualities, Deva, which is almost poles apart from the spate of current films that are contrary to this approach, should be welcomed. Moreover, it stars Shahid Kapoor, who is yet to be labelled a hit man, most ...
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