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LOCARNO IN FOCUS
VIDEO Locarno 78 LivestreamOfficial Selection 2025
Live from Luma Westbau in Zurich the official selection for the 78ᵗʰ Locarno Film Festival has been revealed. Join a global community of cinephiles and dive into Locarno78’s highly anticipated competitive programs and special presentations. ...
Locarno Film Festival Announces Pardi di Domani 2025 Selection
Films by emerging talents, rising stars, and established auteurs like Neo Sora, Marta Popivoda, Abdellah Taïa, Salvatore Mereu, and Radu Muntean feature in the 2025 short and medium-length selection of the Locarno Film Festival, a vital space for expressive experimentation and innovative forms of cinematic poetry. Still - Les Dieux (The Gods) by Anas Sareen Pardi di Domani is a cornerstone of the Lo...
Marcel Barelli to Receive the Locarno Kids Award
The Swiss-born director and designer will be given the Locarno Kids Award, presented by la Mobiliare, on the evening of Tuesday, August 12. During the Festival, Marcel Barelli will present the Swiss premiere of Mary Anning, chasseuse de fossiles (2025), his new animated film dedicated to the British paleontologist who revolutionized the discipline in the early decades of the 19th century. Meanwhile, all the films selected for the Locarno Kids Screenings, the Festival section dedicated ...
Meet the Juries of Locarno78
The juries for the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, taking place from 6 to 16 August 2025, have been announced. A distinguished group of filmmakers, actors, producers, and cultural figures will gather in Locarno to decide the winner of the Pardo d’Oro and other major awards to be presented at the Festival’s Award Ceremony. ans both stage and screen, and who herself won the Pardo for Best Actress in 2023 for her role in Ena Sendijarević’s Sweet Dreams. Togethe...
Locarno78: Official Selection Announced
The selection for the 78th Locarno Film Festival was unveiled at the official press conference today, featuring highly anticipated titles from the three feature competitions – including 99 world premieres – alongside a rich selection from the non-competitive sections. Between August 6-16, 2025, the Swiss city of Locarno will transform into a bustling crossroads for the independent cinema from around the world, featurin...
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VENICE IN FOCUS
The actress Emanuela Fanelli will host the opening and closing nights of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival
The actress and author Emanuela Fanelli, one of the most original and innovative performers in Italian cinema and television, will host the opening and closing nights of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia (27 August – 6 September 2025). Emanuela Fanelli will lead the inauguration ceremony of the 82nd Venice Film Festival on the night of Wednesday 27 August on the stage of Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido), as well as the closin...
Venice Production Bridge: the 10th Book Adaptation Rights Market will run August 29th – August 31st, 2025
The 10th edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market (August 29th – August 31st, 2025), organized as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place at the Hotel Excelsior at the Lido di Venezia, during the forthcoming 82nd Venice International Film Festival (August 27th – September 6th, 2025). The VPB Focus 2025 will be dedicated to the United Kingdom, Chile and Morocco. Following the call which was launched on January 14th, the Book Adaptation Rights Mar...
The selected projects at VENICE GAP-FINANCING MARKET 2025
La Biennale di Venezia is proud to announce that the 12. edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (August 29 – August 31, 2025), organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, has selected 40 Fiction and Documentary projects, 14 Immersive projects and will present an additional 10 Immersive and 3 Fiction projects developed during the Biennale College Cinema workshops. The 3-day Venice Gap-Financing Market ...
Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia to open the 82nd Venice Film Festival
La Biennale di Venezia is pleased to announce that La Grazia, written and directed by the Oscar®-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (The Hand of God, The Great Beauty, Il divo), and starring Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti, is the opening film, in a world premiere in competition, of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival directed by Alberto Barbera (27 August – 6 September 2025). Photo: La Grazia Toni Servillo by Andrea Pirrello La Grazia will have its world premiere scr...
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PEOPLE IN FOCUS
Into the shoes of James Cameron -"The Art of James Cameron" exhibition has reached Cannes
Kim Butts (Avatar Alliance Foundation) and David Lisnard (Mayor of Cannes) inaugurating the Cannes exhibition at Palais des Festivals. Enzo Ghico and Carlo Chatrian, the president and the director of the National Museum of Cinema in Torino were saying in May: "Our city has a very cosmopolitan touch due to the internatuonal events we are hosting like "The art of James Cameron". This exhibition has not only attracted a record number of international visitors but has also attrac...
Interview with the producer of the first film about the Hani people presented at Filmfest Munich
The Communist Party of China declared in 2021 that poverty has been succesfuly eradicated in China. No wonder the film "Hani" with the world premiere at Tallin Black Nights and presented as a German premiere at Filmfest Munich has not yet been screened in China. Director and screenwriter Hou Dasheng presents the story of a boy who belongs to the old community by the name of Hani. But who are the Hani people? The Hani, or Ho or Hà Nhì, are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group....
> INDIA IN FOCUS by Siraj Syed Saiyaara, Review: Forget it
Saiyaara, Review: Forget it Saiyaara or Sayyara or Sayyaaraa, Saiyaaraa is a word derived from Arabic and an integral part of the Urdu language. It could refer to a star, a planet or anything that travels. The word saer/sair, which means ‘taking a tour of’ or ‘wandering’ is derived from this root, or maybe the other way round. Saira is a common name among Muslims, and the most famous Saira in India is Saira Banu, the wife of acting icon Dilip Kumar. There was a song in...
Krishna Arjun, Review: A one-shot movie that experiments within a formula
Krishna Arjun, Review: A one-shot movie that experiments within a formula Hemwant Tiwari (no typo here; it is HemWant, and not Hemant) released Krishna Arjun on YouTube, on 27 March this year. More than three months later, he organised a press show, on 02 July 2025, at the IMPPA mini-theatre, in Andheri, Mumbai. Here, he revealed that even after a year of having shown his film to the Central Board of Film Certification, he was refused a certificate, unless he carried out the cuts, maskings an...
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FESTIVALS IN FOCUS
The Alexandria International Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries 02-06.10 announcing the highlights
The Alexandria International Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries will take place October 2 to October 6 in the city of Alexandria. Leyla Elwi Al-Amir Abaza, the president of the festival, is announcing that the upcoming edition will be dedicated to the great Egyptian actress Leyla Elwi. Al-Amir Abaza Al-Amir Abaza is a writer, cinematic critic, poet, journalist and the president of the "Egyptian Association For Film Write...
Partner festivals calling mid july
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59th KVIFF Honored Stellan Skarsgård, Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard
STELLAN SKARSGÅRD TO RECEIVE THE CRYSTAL GLOBE FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA AT KVIFF Swedish film and theater actor Stellan Skarsgård, recipient of a Golden Globe award, will return to Karlovy Vary for the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where he will be presented the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. Skarsgård will personally present his ne...
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FILMS IN FOCUS GOD'S WORK premieres this week end at Durban Film Fest
Do not miss this film, and watch the trailer : filmfestivals.com founder Bruno Chatelin wishes best of luck on the festival circuit to his friends, Gary Springer and Marco Orsini, producers of this gripping movie about the invisible in your streets which premieres this week- end in Durban . A Portrait Of Resilience, A Meditation On Memory, And An Unflinching Gaze Into The Unseen Lives Of Those Discarded By The World. GOD’S WORK A FILM BY MICHAEL JAMES PREMIERING..