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Cats leads Golden Raspberry Awards’ nominations for worst films
Razzies honours worst films according to critics
Sundance 2020: top awards go to bold, intimate, and humanising stories
Lee Isaac Chung’s coming-of-age film Minari
Parasite makes history at 2020 Oscars
Bong Joon Ho also accepted the award for Best Director.
Berlinale proclaims jurors of side programmes
International film experts and young cineastes comprise the official juries. Two international juries present further prizes in the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competition. Each will award the Grand Prix for the Best Film (endowed with €7,500) and the Special Prize for the Best Short Film (endowed with €2,500)
Berlinale announces juries of 70th edition’s competitions
English actor Jeremy Irons will head the jury of the main competition
1917 wins best film at UK’s BAFTA awards
Joker won three awards: Joaquin Phoenix won Leading Actor, Shayna Markowitz won the inaugural Casting award, and Hildur Guðnadóttir won Original Score.
IFFR announces Pro Awards at the closing of the 37th CineMart
“This edition of IFFR Pro proved that bringing together talent and ideas, and those who can support them, remains a very relevant thing to do. Cinema and the stories we aim to bring to fruition are relevant and have meaning. I am very proud of this year’s edition and look forward to tweaking our endeavours in the future to both create and reflect change,” Head of IFFR Pro Marit van den Elshout said.
IFFR announces winners Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020
The jury consisted of recently appointed director of Kunsthal Rotterdam Nathanja van Dijk, French filmmaker and previous Tiger Award for Short Films winner Safia Benhaim (La fièvre, IFFR 2014), and Los Angeles-born, Belgrade-based film curator and writer Greg de Cuir Jr.
Film world remembers Terry Jones
Actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director, historian, and anti-war activist died last week after losing a battle with dementia.
70th Berlinale edition to open with Philippe Falardeau’s My Salinger Year
The top-class cast of the Berlinale opening film stars Golden Globe winning and Oscar-nominated Sigourney Weaver, Margaret Qualley (most recently seen in Fosse/Verdon, Seberg and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), and Douglas Booth.
Palm Springs Film Festival announces 31st edition’s winners
Best Documentary award went to the Sudanese film Talking About Trees
Berlin Film Festival announces retrospective programme
Waxworks by Paul Leni will open Berlinale Classics 2020 with a digitally restored version
Jeremy Irons will preside Berlinale’s 2020 International Jury
The festival also appointed film critic, writer, and curator Cristina Nord as the director of the Forum section
Cairo Opera House hosts 4th Palestinian Film Week
25 Palestinian films are being screened from 3pm-7pm
Sundance Film Festival announces 2020 programme
The festival is widely regarded as the largest American independent film festival and is said to be attended by more than 120,000 people and 1,300 accredited press and powered by more than 2,000 volunteers last year.
Chile to be ‘Country in Focus’ in 2020 Berlinale Film Market
The market’s programme, the festival said, will provide many opportunities to network with Chilean producers, distributors, investors, creators, and to get to know Chilean productions.
Rotterdam Film Festival reveals lineup for 2020 edition
Selections for Tiger, Bright Future, and Big Screen competitions announced
Berlin Film Festival grants its homage to Helen Mirren
The festival will be hosted by award-winning film and stage Actor Samuel Finzi
Asian cinema sweeps prominent awards at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival’s Award Ceremony
Grand Prix went to Japanese Kontora and the Best Director award went to Filipino filmmaker Jun Robles Jana for Kalel
The 41st CIFF edition concludes
Tunisian film A Son by Barsaoui takes three awards, newly created Audience Award went to the Egyptian film Let’s Talk
Themes in Mexican cinema should not be limited to the idea of white nationalism: Guillermo Arriaga
Mexican filmmaker talks origins, history, and passion during the Cairo International Film Festival
Paris-Stalingrad: The city of light from the perspective of an undocumented refugee
In the Stalingrad neighbourhood, not very far from the Arc de Triomphe, hundreds of refugees camp to sleep in the street, waiting in front of the government building where they need to apply for papers.
Sherif Arafa: I present films to the public first before sending to festivals
“Don’t believe the director who says that success is in festivals and that receiving awards is more important than the box office’s success.”
Interview: Sons of Denmark, what will happen if fascists take over
Ulaa Salim’s debut feature film underlines dark undercurrent, claustrophobic atmosphere
Tallinn Black Nights sets focus on Arab cinema
According to the curator, Intishal Al Timimi, a Black Nights curator who is also the head of the programme of the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt, the special programme is most likely the largest of its kind ever screened at an international festival in Europe.
IFFR establishes new award dedicated to Robby Müller
The first award goes to the Cinematographer Diego García and will be presented at IFFR 2020.
CIFF Selects Marianne Khoury’s Let’s Talk for International Competition
Through different and special visualisation, Let’s Talk is follows four women from four different generations in the family of the late director Youssef Chahine, Khoury’s uncle, who’s originally from the Levant (historical region of Syria), western Asia.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman leads US embassy’s sponsored film programme
Kauffman worked closely with JFS students from diverse film backgrounds
Veteran filmmaker Sherif Arafa to receive Faten Hamama Award at 41st CIFF
During the coming edition, the Faten Hamama Award will also be granted to the American-British director-actor-screenwriter Terry Gilliam.
CIFF to host Eave on Demand script development workshop
Workshop will consist of masterclasses which will be open to all CIFF accredited guests and delegates