The Best Shorts Competition is unique in the industry. Attracting both powerhouse companies as well as talented new filmmakers, The Best Shorts is an exceptional, truly international awards competition, not a traditional film festival – which allows filmmakers from around the world to enter their films in this prestigious competition.
Established in 2011, Best Shorts is an avant-garde...
Dec 18, 2025: World Premiere of the 4K Digital Restoration of ) with Innovative Interactive Musical Accompaniment The score will be provided by South Korean composer Yongbom Lee and produced by 2eleven music. The composition will be performed by Broken Frames Syndicate. The acoustic music will be augmented by electronic sound — produced by the brain activity of the violist [...]
IFFI Goa 2025, 10: Film selection--The Good (rare), the Bad (many) and the Ugly (too many)
Films that are screened at IFFI are selected by a large committee that takes several weeks to vet the available movies, entered in the festival. Each category of films has a different committee assigned to it. The Preview Committee (sometimes referred to as the Selection Jury) for the...
(Summary generated by AI.) The third adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel "The Shinking Man," directed by Jan Kounen and featuring Jean Dujardin, has received mixed reviews. Alexandre Desplat's score is uniquely French and combines subtle electronic and acoustic elements. While initially low-key, the music evolves to include more vigorous themes, blending psychological thriller and...
Monday, October 20
1:00 PM Hedda at Film House
Hedda, a newlywed thrill-seeker, throws an extravagant party in the hopes of helping her husband receive a professorship. However, a lover from her past appears, and disrupts this event.
1:15 PM Timestamp at Black Box
Following teachers and students across Ukraine over the course of a school year, Kateryna Gornostai captures...
By Liza Foreman
In Bleeding Blue Bird, Paris-based director Lev Prudkin opens a trapdoor beneath the stage and plunges us into the metaphysical. Making its world premiere in New York on October 18, the film introduces a surreal fever dream of theatrical obsession, identity fracture, and the dangerous blurring of art and life in this UK-Russia-Ukraine co-production, shot on...
By Liza Foreman
In Bleeding Blue Bird, Paris-based director Lev Prudkin opens a trapdoor beneath the stage and plunges us into the metaphysical. Making its world premiere in New York on October 18, the film introduces a surreal fever dream of theatrical obsession, identity fracture, and the dangerous blurring of art and life in this UK-Russia-Ukraine co-production, shot on location in...
Poster for Sound of Falling and poster for The Little Sister
Monday, October 20
1:00 PM Hedda at Film House
Hedda, a newlywed thrill-seeker, throws an extravagant party in the hopes of helping her husband receive a professorship. However, a lover from her past appears, and disrupts this event.
1:15 PM Timestamp at Black Box
Following teachers and students across...
Long Distance features Anthony Ramos and Naomi Scott as stranded astronauts. Despite its long shelf life, the film's score by Steven Price is highlighted as exceptional, blending orchestral forces with electronics. Price’s music, rich in themes and emotional depth, balances action and softer pieces, creating an engaging sci-fi experience.
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Members of the International Jury Include: Eliza McNitt (President), Gwenael François, Boris Labbé
The selection of projects for Venice Immersive, the XR - Extended Reality section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival (27th August – 6th September 2025) of La Biennale di Venezia, is now complete. Launched in 2017, the section represents the first competition and official...