Wim Wenders traveled to Udine to personally present Yakusho Koji with the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 28th Far East Film Festival on Saturday, using the occasion to describe how their collaboration on “Perfect Days” quietly abandoned the conventions of fiction filmmaking. Wenders, who cast Yakusho as the taciturn Tokyo toilet cleaner […]
The Revisited Cinema section of the 34th edition of Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival is dedicated to anthology films, including works by Federico Fellini, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola.
Anthony Chen used a panel at the Far East Film Festival, Udine, on Saturday to deliver a sharp critique of social media’s effect on human attention, cinema culture and what he called the fundamental experience of being human – remarks that came a day after his film “We Are All Strangers,” the concluding chapter of […]
The Peabody Awards spotlight excellent work that endures. This year’s winners continue that legacy, highlighting stories that cut through the noise with purpose. Amplifying Peabody’s mission, the selected projects reflect the pressing social issues of our time while shining a spotlight on bold, singular voices. We’re proud to see a remarkable group of Sundance Institute–supported […]
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Robbie Sheehan, known for his roles in Misfits and The Umbrella Academy, will be a guest at the 2026 Fastnet Film Festival. The festival will also screen his film The Road Within, which explores themes of friendship, healing, and self-discovery.
Two events are being announced: a talk on the enduring appeal of courtroom dramas by John O’Donnell on 23rd May, and a book launch for his new collection, Mr Hoo & Other Stories, on 22nd May. Tickets for both events go on sale on 4th May.
Championing documentaries that illuminate and expand the artform is at the core of what we do at the Sundance Institute. It’s a mission we share with the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, North America’s largest celebration of nonfiction cinema. Each spring, Toronto becomes a gathering place for nonfiction storytelling, and this year’s festival, running […]
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Adding their 20th feature film to the 2026 edition, the Directors’ Fortnight have extended a special to master filmmaker Bruno Dumont.
Tony Bancroft, the award-winning veteran animator, director and producer whose credits include classic Disney films such as “Mulan,” “The Lion King,” “Aladdin” and “Beauty and the Beast,” will be making his first appearance at this year’s Animayo Gran Canaria festival in Spain, where he will be discussing his work and career and present Avery Kroll’s […]
The European Film Festival Network Young Programmers for Young Audiences! or Young4Film for short successfully concluded its third year of activities in December 2025 with the support of the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. For the past three years, the network has been dedicated to its core mission: actively involving young programmers in shaping the programmes of six...