Dubai-based sales company Cercamon has acquired worldwide rights to “Light Pillar,” the feature debut from Chinese writer-director Xu Zao, ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next month. The Chinese production will screen in competition for the best first feature award in the Perspectives strand at the 76th Berlinale, where it’s […]
The Berlin Film Festival has added Xu Zao’s animated film “Han ye deng zhu” (“Light Pillar”) to its Perspectives section for first-time features. The Chinese production is set in the future, where “space travel is no longer a dream,” according to its official synopsis. “A lonely janitor tends the grounds of a dilapidated bankrupt film […]
The 28th TIDF will call it a wrap with the live broadcast of the OSCARS® Awards Ceremony in collaboration with the Festival’s Grand Sponsor COSMOTE TELEKOM and screening of the nominated documentary "
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“Oscar-qualifying” is a misunderstood phrases in the film festival world.
It sounds like a golden ticket. Like if your film plays at an Oscar-qualifying festival, you’re suddenly on the fast track to the Academy Awards.
That’s not how it works.
Here’s what it actually means — and just as importantly, what it doesn’t mean.
Playing an Oscar-qualifying festival does not...
Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival and Agência – Portuguese Short Film Agency are once again present at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, with a dedicated stand, supported by the Portuguese Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual (ICA).
Seized (Sharon Liese, 2026) 3½ out of 5 stars On August 11, 2023, police in Marion, Kansas, raided not only the office of the local newspaper The Marion Record, but the home of its editor, Eric Meyer, which he shared with his 98-year mother, Joan. Together they both owned the publication, though sadly Joan (pronounced […]
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The Berlin Film Festival has announced the full roster of its main jury members that will comprise U.S.-based directors Reinaldo Marcus Green (“King Richard”) and Hikari (“Rental Family”), and “The Zone of Interest” producer Ewa Puszczyńska, alongside Wim Wenders who is the event’s previously announced competition jury president. The main jury members are: Nepalese director […]
Filmmaker Beth de Araújo and stars Tatum, Gemma Chan, and Mason Reeves stopped by the IndieWire Studio, presented by Dropbox, to talk about making their heavy-hitting Sundance premiere feel comfortable for everyone.
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