Latest festival news – Page 4
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NewsBusan 2024: Screen’s dailies
Browse Screen International’s daily editions from the 2024 Busan International Film Festival and Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM).
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News‘For Rana’ Iranian director Iman Yazdi absent from Busan film festival amid escalating conflict (exclusive)
The filmmaker has seen his travel plans disrupted due to heightened tensions in the Middle East.
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NewsSony Pictures Classics acquires TIFF premiere ‘The Penguin Lessons’ for multiple territories
Lionsgate to distribute in the UK. Rocket Science handles international sales.
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NewsShudder takes North America, UK rights to ‘Grafted’ ahead of Sitges bow (exclusive)
Body horror gets Spanish premiere in Midnight X-Treme strand on October 5, 6.
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NewsMohammad Rasoulof to head jury at Kyiv’s Molodist film festival
Exiled Iranian director named as jury president of Ukrainian film festival.
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NewsMohammad Rasoulof expresses “gratitude” over German Oscar entry for ‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’
The dissident Iranian filmmaker is in South Korea presiding over the main competition at Busan International Film Festival.
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News‘Rust’ to world premiere at Camerimage in honour of Halyna Hutchins
World premiere takes place almost three years after the death on set of its cinematographer.
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NewsRotterdam names Marten Rabarts as head of IFFR Pro
Veteran exec previously worked at New Zealand Film Festival and Binger Filmlab.
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NewsKino Lorber acquires Venice prize-winning documentary ‘Riefenstahl’
Theatrical release planned in 2025.
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NewsBelfast Film Festival world premieres include James Nesbitt comedy ‘The UnHolylands’
The festival runs from October 31-November 9.
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NewsRome Film Festival sets Viggo Mortensen, Dennis Lehane, Chiara Mastroianni masterclasses
Other speakers at festival include Mexican stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna and director Saverio Costanzo.
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NewsAmazon MGM Studios pushes hot awards contender ‘Nickel Boys’ to mid-December US release
Expansion to follow in January.
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NewsBusan film festival opens with Kiyoshi Kurosawa honour, Lee Sun-kyun tribute
Martin Scorsese and Bong Joon Ho among those to honour the Japanese filmmaker.
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NewsVenice Special Jury Prize winner ‘April’ finds US home
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s drama receives US premiere at New York Film Festival on October 7.
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NewsBerlinale Pro’s Tanja Meissner, Hamburg’s Malika Rabahallah talk role models, work/life balance and imposter syndrome
They were joined by producer Wiebke Andresen and cinema owner Verena von Stackelberg of Wolf Kino at FIlmfest Hamburg.
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News‘All We Imagine As Light’, ‘September 5’ join AFI FEST line-up
New titles in full line-up announcement include Samir Oliveros’s The Luckiest Man In America, Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault’s Zurawski v Texas.
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News‘The Room Next Door’, ‘A Real Pain’ bookend Miami Film Festival GEMS
Alfonso Cuarón, costume designer Arianne Phillips, Sebastian Stan to receive Precious Gem Award.
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NewsFormer Match Factory exec joins Berlinale Talents as programme manager
Pausinger is part of a dual leadership team of the Berlinale’s talent development initiative.
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NewsHamburg Production Awards salute Red Balloon Film, Neue Bioskop Film producers
The German partners of Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays and Chiara Fleischhacker’s Vena each won cash prizes of €25,000.
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NewsEuropean Work in Progress Cologne selects 29 projects for 2024 edition
Selection includes Bulgarian filmmaker Stephan Komendarev’s seventh feature Made In EU.