Latest festival news
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News“It’s a tough and uneven competition”: Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy on the challenges facing Arab cinema
Hefzy, producer of Egyptian Oscar submission Flight 404, was speaking at the El Gouna Film Festival
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News2024 film festivals and markets calendar: latest dates
Bookmark this page to keep track of all the latest festival dates.
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News“We want to renew and celebrate”: Geneva’s Anais Emery looks forward to the 30th edition
The Swiss film festival and digital market has long embraced the movement of the audience towards innovative mediums.
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NewsMarrakech to honour Sean Penn, David Cronenberg, Naima Elmcherqui
Moroccan actress Elmcherqui passed away on October 5 this year.
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News‘Memories Of A Burning Body’, ‘Yohanna’ win at Jakarta Film Week
Indonesia’s new minister of culture Fadli Zon made his first public appearance on closing night.
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NewsPayal Kapadia responds to India’s Oscar snub of ‘All We Imagine As Light’
The filmmaker was in conversation with Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda in Tokyo.
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NewsFirst Budapest International Film Festival launches with independent Hungarian fund (exclusive)
The fund will support one Hungarian feature and one short, from script to release.
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NewsTallinn Baltic Film Competition selection includes seven world premieres
16 titles include ‘Anna LOL’, about a young woman exploring double standards in Latvian society.
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NewsLes Arcs selects eight emerging directors for 2024 Talent Village
Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi named as 2024 ambassador of festival’s talent initiative.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires Kazuya Shiraishi’s Udine Far East Film Festival winner ‘Bushido’ (exclusive)
Period samurai drama to open theatrically in 2025.
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NewsSingapore film festival unveils 2024 line-up; launches Industry Days conference
Taiwanese actors Lee Kang-sheng and Yang Kuei-mei to receive honorary awards.
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NewsJapan prime minster pledges support for content industry at Tokyo film festival opening
The festival opened with period action feature ’11 Rebels’.
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NewsVenice winner ‘Vermiglio’, Cannes hit ‘All We Imagine As Light’ take top Chicago fest honours
Grand Tour, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig among prize-winners.
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NewsEl Gouna Film Festival opens 2024 edition with star power and calls for peace
The night also saw an honorary award presented to actor and producer Mahmoud Hemida.
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NewsUK film industry adapting to Brexit, says ‘Bring Them Down’ director
Bring Them Down was a co-production between the UK, Ireland, and Belgium.
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NewsLina Soualem, Djanis Bouzyani, and Mouloud Ouyahia projects selected for Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops
The Atlas Workshops nurture and showcase projects by filmmakers from the MENA region.
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NewsVisit Films closes US, UK deals on SXSW doc ‘Mogwai: If The Stars Had A Sound’ (exclusive)
The Adler Entertainment, Blazing Griffin, Screen Scotland produced documentary.
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NewsGuadaLAjara Film Festival to honour ‘Baby Reindeer’ star Nava Mau, Ilse Salas, Diane Guerrero (exclusive)
Rodrigo Prieto, Eugenio Caballero, Salas to attend Pedro Páramo screening on November 2.
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NewsEl Gouna Film Festival pulls opening film ‘The Last Miracle’ hours before screening
The festival in Egypt will instead open with Palme d’Or-winning short ‘The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent’.
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NewsMagnolia’s Magnet Releasing acquires Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection ‘Sister Midnight’
Film will play AFI Fest this month. Magnet plans spring 2025 theatrical release