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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Norway finds place in spotlight during golden age' of film-making

But after years in the shadows, the country has finally found its place in the international spotlight with a number of distinctive, relationship-centred and critically acclaimed films and television shows in what many are describing as a Norwegian golden age. The last few months alone have seen the release of Dreams, the third of Dag Johan Haugerud's Oslo Stories Trilogy, which won the biggest prize at this year's Berlin film
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Shakespeare, vampires and MMA: where does this year's Oscar race stand?

But since the pandemic shifted how so much of the industry operates, the past few years have seen unusual variation. Coda became the first best picture winner from Sundance, Everything Everywhere All at Once the first from SXSW, Oppenheimer the first non-festival premiere to win since The Departed in 2006 and the past six years has seen Cannes with more best picture wins than any other festival.
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fromIndieWire
6 days ago

Memo to Distributors: Buy These 2025 Fall Festival Movies

Plenty of films go into Venice, Telluride, and Toronto with North American distribution already in place, particularly when you have the backing of a distributor like Netflix (which had four world premieres this fall) or Focus Features (which brought the house down with the likes of " Hamnet" and " Bugonia "). But with more than 300 features premiering at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, and a swath at Venice, Telluride, and now headed for New York, many venture in without distribution support.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

American independent cinema owes much to Sundance king Robert Redford | Adrian Horton

Robert Redford significantly shaped American independent cinema through founding the Sundance Institute and festival, championing risk-taking filmmakers and funding independent film.
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fromBustle
1 week ago

Eva Victor's Secret Is Out

Eva Victor directed Sorry, Baby, premiered at Sundance, sold to A24, and is navigating nonstop festivals, press, and exhaustion while grateful for the film's reception.
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fromRoger Ebert
1 week ago
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TIFF 2025: Scarlet, Arco, Little Amelie or the Character of Rain | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Mamoru Hosoda's Scarlet is a lavish, gender-swapped Hamlet-inspired animated film blending striking imagery with a dragging middle act and themes of forgiveness versus vengeance.
fromThe Hollywood Reporter
3 months ago
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Animated Werewolf Movie 'Dog of God' Debuts Wild Trailer With Hitler Look-Alike Getting Tortured (Exclusive)

The animated film 'Dog of God' premieres at Tribeca, featuring unique rotoscope animation and a story blending witchcraft and werewolf mythology.
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1 week ago
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TIFF 2025: Scarlet, Arco, Little Amelie or the Character of Rain | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Film festival premieres promise a history-making Oscars showdown

In Venice, Telluride and Toronto, the red carpets have been rolled up and the dust has settled on the film festivals which traditionally function as Oscar launchpads. Back in Hollywood, publicists are recalibrating campaigns and pundits are placing their bets on the big films and performances of the upcoming awards season. A few key contenders are still yet to be seen, but at this stage of the race, one thing seems clear: come next March, records will be broken.
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fromVulture
1 week ago

To Cry or Not to Cry?

Chloé Zhao's film Hamnet elicits powerful emotional reactions, prompting frequent audience sobbing at festival screenings and generating awards-season momentum.
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fromThe Walrus
1 week ago

How TIFF Became a Dumping Ground for Vanity Projects | The Walrus

The Toronto International Film Festival increasingly prioritizes Hollywood celebrity-driven films, shrinking its international and Canadian-focused programming.
fromRoger Ebert
1 week ago

TIFF 2025: The Voice of Hind Rajab, Unidentified, The Fence | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

The best of the three is a movie that wasn't on many radars before Venice but became a must-see at TIFF after it emotionally devastated Italian audiences. Kaouther Ben Hania's " Four Daughters" was a breakthrough for the Tunisian filmmaker, earning her an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature. She uses her skills with non-fiction filmmaking to emotional effect with the crushing "The Voice of Hind Rajab," a recounting of the events of January 29, 2024, much of which played out on social media.
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fromThe Oaklandside
2 weeks ago

This week in Oakland: The 23rd Oakland International Film Festival and a screening of 'Paper Bag Plan'

I'm particularly excited about two screenings: "Paper Bag Plan" by Anthony Lucero whose debut film was "East Side Sushi," and the documentary "In The Red" by Mimi Chakarova which follows five youths of color through their training at the BAY EMT program. If you would like us to consider an event for this weekly list, please email me at azucena@oaklandside.org.
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fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks ago

One of the Funniest Movies in Years Is Also One of the Most Canadian

Film festivals provide communal, enthusiastic audiences that elevate films; the electrified Toronto premiere of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie exemplified this.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Saint Carlo, film festivals and a colourful giant: photos of the weekend

People attend the canonisation ceremony for Carlo Acutis in St Peter's Square Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images Prince Hisahito attends his coming-of-age ceremony at the imperial palace Photograph: AP Beef is prepared to cook a traditional dish called Kuah Beulangong to commemorate the birthday of the prophet Muhammad Photograph: Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA The DJ and music producer Vladimir Cauchemar at the city's 51st American film festival Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Josh Brolin, Glenn Close and Jeremy Renner at the premiere of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, during the city's international film festival Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Benny Safdie poses with the Silver Lion for the runner-up as best director for The Smashing Machine at the city's 82nd international film festival Photograph: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images
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fromRoger Ebert
2 weeks ago

TIFF 2025: Palestine 36, The Choral, Peak Everything | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

This year at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Gala Presentations included two world premieres: Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir's 1930s-set historical epic "Palestine 36" and Nicholas Hytner's WWII dramedy "The Choral" starring Ralph Fiennes, and the Toronto Premiere for Montreal-based filmmaker Anne Émond's romantic comedy "Peak Everything," which first premiered earlier this year at Cannes. All three films seek to examine contemporary society, two through the past, one through the present, with mixed results.
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fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Charli XCX May Have What It Takes to Be a Movie Star After All

That'd be a lot for any actor, but it's especially noteworthy for a musical artist whose acting roles were previously limited to voice parts in the Angry Birds and UglyDolls movies. Charli is a pop star, nightlife queen, and certified cool girl, but in the past year, she's made it clear she's also a cinephile who's very interested in making it onto the big screen.
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fromRoger Ebert
3 weeks ago

TIFF 2025: 20 World Premieres We Can't Wait to See | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

TIFF will premiere twenty films in Canada, including festival titles and notable star performances, with assigned critics and concentrated coverage beginning Friday.
fromDeadline
3 weeks ago

'Love, Brooklyn', 'Griffin In Summer', 'Motel Destino' Debut As Fall Festival Season Kicks Off - Specialty Preview

Love, Brooklyn from Greenwich Entertainment, the feature debut of Rachael Abigail Holder, opens at NYC's Angelika Film Center. André Holland is a writer navigating complicated relationships with his ex, an art gallery owner (Nicole Beharie), and his current lover, a newly single mother (DeWanda Wise), with the support of his best friend (Roy Wood Jr.). Written by Paul Zimmerman. Holland is a producer and Steven Soderbergh EP of this modern romance set against the rapidly changing landscape of Brooklyn.
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fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Watch Josh O'Connor Gently Neg Paul Mescal in The History of Sound

The History of Sound is a yearning early-20th-century romance anchored in American folk music and intimate performances by Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal.
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fromIndieWire
3 weeks ago

Telluride Film Festival Sees Double: 2 Beatles, 2 Josh O'Connor Films, and 2 from Richard Linklater

Telluride curates a community-focused, highbrow lineup of awards contenders and classics while improving scheduling and maintaining strong industry attendance.
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fromIndieWire
2 months ago
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Cherien Dabis Hopes Her New Film 'All That's Left of You' Makes the 'Palestine Origin Story' Mainstream Onscreen

fromIndieWire
2 months ago
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Cherien Dabis Hopes Her New Film 'All That's Left of You' Makes the 'Palestine Origin Story' Mainstream Onscreen

fromIndieWire
4 weeks ago

Film Festival Matchmaking: Where Some of This Year's Hottest Titles Could End Up, Including 'Bad Apples,' 'Christy,' and 'Dead Man's Wire'

Every year, the agents tell us the sales market at festivals takes longer to materialize, and every year they turn out to be (mostly) right. Still, before each film festival kicks off, we take the time to round up the handful of movies that could still fetch those illusory bidding wars and fantastic 8-figure deals.
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fromIndieWire
4 weeks ago

You Can Soon See Some of the Year's Best Undistributed Films at a Theater Near You

In just its second year in existence, The Popcorn List - a survey of acclaimed ( but still undistributed) feature films that debuted at major or regional film festivals over the past year and come highly recommended by festival programmers - is already taking a big step forward. Next month, the creators of the list will host various pop up screening events, both at theaters and virtually, to show off the very same films they've been championing. The Pop Up Series includes eight films from the 2025 list - seven from first-time feature directors, six directed by women, three documentaries, and five fiction features - and will not only provide a space for eager audiences to see this stellar films, but will also offer a unique model for both promotion and profit.
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fromIndieWire
4 weeks ago

Fall Festival Preview: 42 Must-See Films Playing at the Venice, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals

Fall film festivals—Venice, Toronto, New York, and Telluride—will debut anticipated international auteurs, breakout discoveries, and awards-worthy films from established and emerging filmmakers.
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fromConde Nast Traveler
1 month ago

5 Legendary Hotels Steeped in Film Festival History, From Venice to Cannes

Historic hotels have served as influential backdrops and creative hubs that shaped major film festivals' culture and networks from Sundance to Venice and Cannes.
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fromIndieWire
1 month ago

Quick! If You Make Short Films, Try These 9 Tips for Your Next Festival Submission

Persistence in submitting to film festivals led to significant recognition for indie filmmaker Erin Brown Thomas. Passion drives her artistic endeavors.
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fromVariety
1 month ago

Tim Blake Nelson Boxing Drama 'Bang Bang' Sells to Sunrise for North America After Tribeca, Locarno Bow (EXCLUSIVE)

Sunrise Films has acquired North American distribution rights to 'Bang Bang,' an emotionally charged boxing drama starring Tim Blake Nelson.
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fromMission Local
2 months ago

Sing along to 'Fruit Fly,' homegrown S.F. musical at the Roxie next week

H.P. Mendoza is celebrating the 17th anniversary of "Fruit Fly" with a sing-along edition to bring joy amidst current bleak circumstances.
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fromTime Out London
2 months ago

Brutalist cinema is coming back to London this summer - and the line-up rocks

London's Sculpture Court is hosting an outdoor cinema season featuring films by notable directors such as Wes Anderson and David Lynch.
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fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago

Introduction to the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Karlovy Vary Film Festival's 59th edition opened with an elaborate ceremony and features hundreds of contemporary arthouse film screenings.
fromSubstack
2 months ago

Tribeca lets the light in

The virtual screenings during the Covid-19 pandemic briefly lifted long-standing barriers for African professionals and audiences at film festivals, but this democratization was short-lived as festivals returned to physical gatherings.
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fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago

A Dispatch From the Bentonville Film Festival | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Bentonville Film Festival promotes equitable representation in media, founded by the Geena Davis Institute with the support of Walmart.
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fromSan Francisco Bay Times
2 months ago

More Queer Films to See Before Frameline49 Ends - San Francisco Bay Times

Frameline Film Festival features important films exploring themes of motherhood, identity, and familial relationships.
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fromSFGATE
2 months ago

This San Francisco film was found in the trash. Now it's selling out screenings.

Cult films risk being forgotten as they are often discarded or overlooked in modern streaming culture.
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fromVariety
3 months ago

Why Pageant Docuseries 'Mrs. America' is Being Shopped as a Work in Progress at Tribeca: 'We're in a New World Order'

Penny Lane's docuseries "Mrs. America" will premiere as a work-in-progress at Tribeca Film Festival 2023.
fromPortland Mercury
3 months ago

Ten Years of Terror With the Portland Horror Film Festival

Horror is an expansive genre that includes a variety of sub-genres and styles, emphasizing the independent spirit of filmmaking beyond big studios.
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fromNo Film School
3 months ago

What Are Some Alternative Jobs For Unemployed Screenwriters?

Filmmakers seeking financing can apply to programs like Film Independent's Labs and the Final Cut in Venice.
Important deadlines for submission are often set for early June.
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fromwww.dw.com
4 months ago

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi returns to Cannes DW 05/23/2025

Jafar Panahi challenges artistic restrictions in Iran while presenting his films despite governmental opposition and a long-standing filmmaking ban.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
4 months ago

'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' celebrates milestone at TCM Classic Film Festival

"The Empire Strikes Back" celebrates its 45th anniversary, highlighting its enduring impact and cultural significance.
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fromIndieWire
5 months ago

Festival Programmers Pick Their 19 Favorite New Films Still in Need of Distribution

A new edition of The Popcorn List highlights 19 highly recommended feature films seeking distribution, encouraging indie filmmakers to explore innovative distribution methods.
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fromIrish Independent
5 months ago

Ireland's first trans film festival: 'We're always seeing movies about how sad trans lives are. But ours are comedy, sci-fi and mockumentaries'

Transgender filmmakers are emerging and creating impactful films, but their stories often remain marginalized in mainstream film festivals.
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fromRoger Ebert
5 months ago

Chicago Latino Film Festival 2025: Highlights of a Creative Force | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Chicago boasts over 40 film festivals, including the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, which highlights diverse Latino narratives and fosters community dialogue.
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