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Santa Fe Independent Film Festival announces 2018 Indigenous Film Programme
Festival’s 10th edition will run from 17 October to 21 October

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky star, Anna Mouglalis, receives award for distinguished work
French actress was honoured by AFF

Veteran Egyptian cinematographer Saied Shimi honoured at AFF
Shimi is one of Egypt’s most prominent cinematographers

Profile: Rashid Masharawi: The director who restored Palestinian peoples’ humanity
Cinema able to show world construct, identity of Palestine, better than any politician, conference, or talks

Duraid Lahham returns to acting following years of inactivity
Lahham’s last appearance on silver screen was in 2009

Egypt’s film community mourns prominent documentary filmmaker Atiyat El-Abnoudi
Filmmaker’s concern with subaltern women stems from intellectual preoccupation with inequality

The Alexandria Film Festival kicks off
Abaza wishes festival would become opportunity to promote tourism in Alexandria

15th edition of Seville Festival will take place on 9 November
Posters of Spain-based festival published under slogan ‘slip into European cinema

34th Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries opens 3 October in Bibliotheca Alexandrina
AFF to honour Omar Khairat, Nadia Lotfi, Mohamed Fawzy among others

Oldenburg International Film Festival honours Keith Carradine
Carradine’s career is impressive with a list of the films that were made unforgettable with his presence

45th edition of Film Fest Gent announces Belgian slate including six world premieres
Artistic director Patrick Duynslaegher said that the slate is “indeed a strikingly Belgian edition, but at the same time this section also has an international allure

World premiere of Bad Times at El Royale to close official selection of San Sebastian Festival’s 66th edition
The world premiere of “Bad Times at the El Royale” to close the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Festival’s 66th edition. The second film directed by Drew Goddard The Cabin in the Wood stars Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, and Dakota Johnson, among others. The world premiere of Bad Times at the El …

Burt Reynolds, Hollywood’s moustachioed heartthrob, has died
US actor Burt Reynolds—who starred in several of most successful films of 1970s—has died at age of 82

Critics’ Week wraps up with Tunisian horror Dachra by Abdelhamid Bouchnak
General Delegate Giona A Nazzaro defined Dachra as “the revelation of a new horror talent

Venice International Film Critics’ Week reveals awards
Lissa Ammetsajjel (Still Recording) by Syrian directors Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub wins Audience Award, Mario Serandrei

Venice 2018 kicks off on with controversy
The 76th Venice Film Festival (the oldest in the world) has gotten off to a slightly controversial start with critics citing the small number of works by female filmmakers and the participation of Netflix in the festival’s lineup. Festival director Alberto Barbera has been criticised for not scheduling more films from distaff side directors. Only one female …

IFFR to screen its films in Sarajevo
Screenings new episode in long-standing collaboration between IFFR, Sarajevo Film Festival

French film star Gerard Depardieu rejects rape claims
69-year-old film star was ‘stunned’ by complaint, his lawyer says

Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania to join 75th Venice International Film Festival jury
Selection is complete for members of five Juries of 75th Venice International Film Festival

Iconic actor Morgan Freeman to be honoured in Deauville
Morgan Freeman is set to receive honours at Deauville Film Festival later this month

Sarah Jessica Parker to Receive a Deauville Talent Award
She has worked in the theatre, on and off Broadway, since 1976

Eleven films to make up the Made in Spain programme
Festival will present the documentary Querido Fotogramas

Zawya reopens by commemorating Youssef Chahin’s memory
Restoration project screens 20 rare films of Chahin’s to ‘honour his legacy’

Yeo Siew Hua’s film ‘A Land Imagined’ wins top prize at Locarno Film Festival
Film contrasts Southeast Asia’s rich hub with exploitation of impoverished migrant workers

Bob Murawski awarded Campari Passion for Film award
Latest work, reconstruction of Orson Welles’ “The Other Side of the Wind”, to be screened at 75th Venice International Film Festival

Lifetime Achievement 2018 Golden Lion, David Cronenberg holds masterclass at Venice Film Festival
As a tribute to David Cronenberg, winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 2018 Venice Film Festival, his masterpiece film “M. Butterfly” (1993) will be screened during the festival as recommended by the director himself, who considers it to be one of the most personal, though perhaps not most successful, of his …

Thriller depicting Egyptian spy Ashraf Marwan to be released 14 September
Film directed by Ariel Vromen, produced by Netflix

Ash is Purest White: Documenting China’s social changes via love story
Love story set in a contemporary China that has gone through epic, dramatic transformations

Scarlett Johansson quits transgender role amid criticism from LGBT community
Following backlash from LGBT community, Johansson has stepped down from a transgender film role

Film community stands in solidarity with imprisoned filmmaker Oleg Sentsov
Ukrainian filmmaker was sentenced to 20 years in prison on terrorism charges