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The Maine Outdoor Film Festival Announces 2023 Lineup of Outdoor Films
An international program of over 90 outdoor adventure and conservation films, comes to Portland July 20th – July 30th. The Maine Outdoor Film Festival (MOFF) has released its 2023 film lineup. The Portland-based festival will feature 96 films from national, international and Maine-based filmmakers. Mainly documentary, the films will touch upon subjects ranging from outdoor adventure and extreme sports to conservation work and art meeting nature and will c…
Stage32 Cannes 2023 Recap
This year marked a monumental milestone for Stage 32, our 10th year on La Croisette! In many ways, it was our most successful year yet. During our first-ever Stage 32 Cannes meetup, we had a close-knit group of 17 people in attendance. This year, we grew to 1500 attendees at our Stage 32 party in partnership with Variety! It was amazing to see so many people from our global community show up to celebrate, network, and support each other. We had Stage 32 members screening their films and…
The Golden Apricot opens this sunday with Luka by Jessica Woodworth
The opening film July 9th is Luka by Jessica Woodworth Synopsis Luka, a young soldier craving battle, heads north to the legendary Fort Kairos where soldiers heroically defend the remains of civilization. He finds instead a dysfunctional force that has never even seen an enemy and is lorded over by a high command bloated with delusions of grandeur. Luka finds comfort in friendships with Konstantin, an enigmatic ra…
Asia Pacific Screen Lab submissions open
ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN LAB OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS Griffith Film School, the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, Sun Foundation and NETPAC are pleased to announce the Call for Submissions for the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Lab. At its core the Lab develops a vehicle for enabling film co-productions by early career feature filmmakers from across the Asia Pacific, typically those who have made at least one feature film within their particular national cinema and are now ready for a larger inte…
The 2023 Speed of Light Virtual Cinema within the Maui Festival
LIFE AFTER DEATH? Yes! It Lives! What? Now! How? Now On-Line… A Festival Within the Festival The 2023 Speed of Light Virtual Cinema. A Treasure Trove of 65 Carefully Curated Eye-Openers That Are Uplifting & Brilliant From Around Hawai’i and Around the World. Click on Any Poster Below for More Information …
Swedish Actress Alicia Vikander Reigns Over International Film Festival Circuit
Award-winning Swedish actress Alicia Vikander recently was honored in the Czech Republic at the 57th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with the President’s Award, in advance of the screening of her latest feature, the historical drama Fireband by director Karim Ainouz. In the film, Vikander plays the role of Queen Catherine Parr, the last wife of King Henry VIII, played by Jude Law. Firebrand Incidentally, Vikander’s first international film A Royal Affair in which she played Caroline M…
Golden Apricot will launch with Jessica Woodworth’s Luka
By Alex Deleon The 20th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival will take place from July 9th to 17th this year. As always, the festival will present films from different countries around the world in the competition sections, including films from prestigious film festivals such as Cannes and Berlin. World cinema artists will come to Armenia to share their experiences and art with cinema lovers. This year, “Golden Apricot” celebrates its 20th anniversary, coinci…
Venice Production Bridge / Projects Selected for the Venice Gap-Financing Market
The 10th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 1 – September 3, 2023), organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place during the forthcoming 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30th – September 9th, 2023) and will offer selected projects from Europe and around the world the opportunity to close their international financing, through one-to-one meetings with international decision-makers. The 3…
Sibel’s silence curated in the Best for Fests line up
The “Best for Fests” curated by the filmfestivals.com founder and editor, veteran film marketing expert, former head of Fox and Sony distribution in France founder of the consulting boutique Major Buzz Factory. Ask for Screeners, follow their success on Facebook and IMDB IMDB Profile I BEST FOR FESTS List on IMDB Dear Festival programmers: I am really proud to share with the festival community and our network these…
The Unseen Crisis curated in the Best for Fests line up
The “Best for Fests” curated by the filmfestivals.com founder and editor, veteran film marketing expert, former head of Fox and Sony distribution in France founder of the consulting boutique Major Buzz Factory. Ask for Screeners, follow their success on Facebook and IMDB IMDB Profile I BEST FOR FESTS List on IMDB Dear Festival programmers: I am really proud to share with the festival community and our network these …
Gender Transformation The Untold Realities curated in the Best for Fests line up
The “Best for Fests” curated by the filmfestivals.com founder and editor, veteran film marketing expert, former head of Fox and Sony distribution in France founder of the consulting boutique Major Buzz Factory. Ask for Screeners, follow their success on Facebook and IMDB IMDB Profile I BEST FOR FESTS List on IMDB Dear Festival programmers: I am really proud to share with the festival community and our network these amazing films which …
Gender Transformation The Untold Realities Synopsis
Through the real-life experience of several transgender youth and expert interviews, this docudrama provides an uncensored look into the forces behind this movement and reveals untold stories you have never heard. The transgender movement has attracted a lot of attention in the last decade. From transgender athletes who by far win over female competitors, male prisoners who call themselves trans moving to women’s prisons, to creating additional bathrooms for third gender, now chil…
TIFF announces World Premiere of Ladj Ly’s new powerful film, Les Indésirables
MEDIA RELEASE July 5, 2023 TIFF announces World Premiere of Ladj Ly’s new powerful film, Les Indésirables Making his return to the Festival, Ly’s highly anticipated film is set to captivate Toronto audiences with this World Premiere Photo credit: Luis Mora TIFF is thrilled to announce the first international title to make its World Premiere at TIFF 2023. Ladj Ly, the acclaimed French filmmaker be…
Swedish Actress Alicia Vikander Reigns Over International Film Festival Circuit
Award-winning Swedish actress Alicia Vikander recently was honored in the Czech Republic at the 57th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with the President’s Award, in advance of the screening of her latest feature, the historical drama Fireband by director Karim Ainouz. In the film, Vikander plays the role of Queen Catherine Parr, the last wife of King Henry VIII, played by Jude Law. Firebrand Incidentally, Vikander’s first international film A Royal Affair in which she played Caroline M…
The OIAF releases its Young Audiences 7+ and Teen Audiences 13+ selections
The Ottawa International Animation Festival announces its selections for its Young Audiences 7+ and its new Teen Audiences 13+ competitions, both categories to be judged by members of their respective audiences at the Festival The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) announces the Official Selections for its Young Audiences 7+ and for its new competition category, Teen Audiences 13+. The new competition category includes 11 animated worlds that bridge the gap between adult and child…
Winners of the First Flights Short Film Fund 2023 Edition in association with HollyShorts
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the First Flights Short Film Fund 2023 Edition in association with HollyShorts. Deadline – Amy Gardner A man in severe debt has one day left to pay off his loans but does not realise that failure could be fatal. El Vals (The Waltz) – Alycya Magana & Damiana Acuna After his mother’s deportation, a lonely 8 year old Mexican-American boy tries to throw his sister her long awaited Quinceañera. Moving Doors (D…
Sibel s Silence wins best ensemble cast at Julien Dubuque International Film Festival
The film has previously won at the following film festivals Worldwide Women’s Film Festival Hong Kong Indie Film Festival Paris Lady MovieMakers Festival WRPN Women’s International Film Festival Boston Independent Film Awards Vancouver International Movie Awards Toronto International Women Film Festival Rome Independent Cinema Festival RANKED AGAIN IN 2022 AS ONE OF THE TOP 50 FILM FESTIVALS WORTH THE SUBMISSION FEE BY MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE AND ONE OF THE TOP REV…
The Best Shorts Competition Announces Latest Winners!
The Best Shorts Competition is proud to announce the latest winners. The Best Shorts Competition puts filmmakers first and provides a direct opportunity for recognition and publicity for high quality productions. It is international in scope and has granted awards to producers in Australia, Bahrain, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Martinique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paragu…
“Close” wins LUX European Audience Film Award 2023
The European public and the members of the European Parliament have voted “Close” by Belgian director Lukas Dhont the winner of the LUX European Audience Film Award in a ceremony in the European Parliament’s hemicycle in Brussels. The film, co-produced by Belgium, France and Netherlands, tells the story of an intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi. When their friendship is suddenly disrupted, Leo approaches Sophie, Remi’s mother, struggling t…
Discover the president of the Deauville Revelation jury!
The Mélanie Thierry mystery Whether in film, theater or television, Mélanie Thierry has been distilling the sweet perfume of mystery for over 20 years, that of an unclassifiable actress with a sharp craft and a career full of side-steps, feline leaps and entrechats, surprises and attempts, in France and the United States. She made her mark on the silver screen in Giuseppe Tornato…
Academy Award and Golden Globe Nominated Bruce Beresford to Direct The Place I Belong the Moe Norman Story
Photo: Bruce Beresford Multi-Oscar nominated director Bruce Beresford has been signed by producer David Carver Films to direct The Place I Belong, the Moe Norman story. The feature film is a human-interest journey set against an uplifting sports story and follows the rise of the socially misfit savant and self-taught amateur golfer, Moe Norman, from caddie and bowling alley pinsetter to playing The Masters and on the professional golf tour. Sadly, Norman’s eccentric and misunders…
VIDEO Sibel’s Silence: interview with the director about his win at Julien Dubuque Fest
Bruno Chatelin met in Dubuque and Chicago airport with Aly Yeganeh, the director of Le Silence de Sibel (2020) which just won best ensemble cast at JDIFF. This film tells the story of 13-year-old Sibel, one of the many thousands of girls kidnapped by ISIS fighters. After her entire family was murdered, Sibel was taken as a prisoner and forced into sexual slavery – all in the name of religion.Hana, 40, is an ophthalmologist living in a small town in central France. Of K…
VIDEO: Aly Yeganeh interviewed after Sibel’s Silence screening in Cannes
Aly Yeganeh came to Cannes with his succesfull film Sibel’s Silence Filmfestivals.com captured the emotion at the screening in the Palais during the Q&A. This film tells the story of 13-year-old Sibel, one of the many thousands of girls kidnapped by ISIS fighters. After her entire family was murdered, Sibel was taken as a prisoner and forced into sexual slavery – all in the name of religion.Hana, 40, is an ophthalmologist living in a small town in central Franc…
Gender Transformation The Untold Realities The Director’s statement
Tobias Elvhage : Director writer and producer of Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities Tobias Elvhage is a producer and director with a passion for engaging and touching stories. He has studied at Berghs School of Communication and Producer at Stockholm Media School. His most recent productions ranges from “haute cuisine” docuseries, to historical as well as contemporary documentaries and docuseries with reenactments. His recent film “…
Gender Transformation The Untold Realities The Crew
Director Tobias Elvhage(Divine Messengers, Taste of France…) Director Liza Morberg(De Utvalda, Alone Together…) Producer Tobias Elvhage (Taste of France) Producer Yiyuan Chang Julia Saeed Key Cast “Evan” Writer Tobias Elvhage Writer Liza Morberg …
Sneak peek of TIFF Festival 2023
The Toronto International Film Festival® is excited to announce early details about its 48th edition. Recognized as the world’s largest public film festival, TIFF 2023 will welcome audiences from across the globe to Toronto to experience the best in international and Canadian cinema, press and industry screenings, special events, and red carpets featuring some of the biggest names in film. Taking place from September 7–17, 2023, TIFF 2023’s official screening v…
Swedish Actress Alicia Vikander Reigns Over International Film Festival Circuit
Award-winning Swedish actress Alicia Vikander recently was honored in the Czech Republic at the 57th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with the President’s Award, in advance of the screening of her latest feature, the historical drama Fireband by director Karim Ainouz. In the film, Vikander plays the role of Queen Catherine Parr, the last wife of King Henry VIII, played by Jude Law. Firebrand Incidentally, Vikander’s first international film A Royal Affair in which she played Caroline M…
The Chelsea Film Festival (CFF) has been selected in the “TOP 10 BEST FILM FESTIVAL IN NORTH AMERICA” (#6) by USA Today in 2019 among 19 other film festivals in the USA.
CFF is an organization dedicated to supporting films and the artists who create them by providing a creative forum for exchange and discovery with the public.
The Festival attracts filmmakers, artists and audience members from across North America and around the globe. It premieres independent feature-length, documentaries and short films with a Global Focus.
Chelsea Film Festival aims to raise an awareness about foreign independent films and discover upcoming talents.
The Chelsea Film Festival is an international film platform for world lovers.
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Through the real-life experience of several transgender youth and expert interviews, this docudrama provides an uncensored look into the forces behind this movement and reveals untold stories you have never heard.
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Some who took vaccine with the noblest of intentions experienced unexpected debilitating aftereffects. Instead of compassion, they were met with skepticism; instead of being helped they were shunned; instead of being heard, they were silenced. Join us as we bring their stories out of the shadows so they can be heard and seen and no longer alone.
And yet nobody’s coming to the rescue of truth?
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France 93 minutes
August 2014. ISIS invades the city of Sinjar, home to a religious minority called the Yazidis, in the north west of Irak.
Sibel, a 13-year-old girl, witnesses the slaughter of her entire family.
Alongside thousands of other women and young girls from her community, she is then kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery.
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5 minutes 40 – USA July 2022
An overly confident cop’s first day on the job gets interesting as he navigates unfamiliar territories and people.
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A brother-sister assassin duo become part of a scheme much bigger than them, when a culture vulture-ing client calls an audible.
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2023 USA 96 minutes
Rear View Cataclysm is the story of two brothers and an ex-girlfriend who try to recapture the love and passion and of their past. Edison is trapped in a toxic marriage and invites down-on-his-luck brother, Blake (Jason Liebrecht), to a popular local music festival. Broke and depressed, Blake agrees, not realizing that Edison has also invited Mazie (Caroline Ducey), his ex-girlfriend. No one can predict the course of desire, reconciliation and regret that unfolds. Set against the barren landscapes of rural Texas and featuring the hypnotic sounds of Grouper and Govinda along with Punk Rock Bands Zounds and The Jesus Lizard, Rear View Cataclysm is a feast for the heart and senses.
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December 2022, USA 2 hours 4 minutes
Gotham tells the true story of what happened in New York City during the twenty years from 1993 to 2013. How did a city with over 2200 murders, 93,000 violent robberies and 147,000 car thefts in 1990 become the capitol of the world a mere handful of years later? This feature documentary explores what happened during these decades, told by the people who did the hard work, some at great personal and professional cost.
From Fear City to the City of Dreams. Hear about the greatest American turnaround story from the people who made it happen.
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ABSOLUTION by Lauren Spohn
Short film by Lauren Spohn (UK: 6 minutes 24 seconds 2022)
Labelled BEST FOR FESTS by curator Bruno Chatelin former head of Fox and Sony in France, filmfestivals.com founder and editor
“I am in a dark forest and something is chasing after me, some sort of creature that reeks fire or something: one part of me wants to run but I cannot move my legs? I am totally paralysed…”
“One last thing”he said : “it’s not your fault !”
A man sees his psychiatrist for help with a difficult hidden family secret. The conversation takes a sinister turn as the psychiatrist pushes deeper into the man’s past. All is not what it seems:
Can he take the tension, will you?
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La fête du Cinéma a accueilli plus de 3 millions de spectateurs
La Fête du Cinéma : du dimanche 2 au mercredi 5 juillet 2023 inclus. Durant ces 4 jours, les cinémas ont été heureux d’accueillir plus de 3 millions de spectateurs (3,1 exactement) au tarif exceptionnel de 5 euros la séance*. La Fête du Cinéma est un rendez-vous incontournable dans le calendrier cinématographique français et un événement populaire immanquable ! Elle est organisée par l…
Le FIFMA d’Autrans peaufine sa 40ème édition
On se retrouvera en décembre pour la 40ème édition du FIFMA ! FIFMA | 40ème édition | Rendez-vous Voilà le FIFMA arrivé à un tournant de son histoire ! Une nouvelle dizaine sera fêtée cet hiver dans le très beau décor d’Autrans ! 40 ans de rencontres, d’invités, de personnes passionnantes venues partager leurs univers avec le public de ce festival à l’identit&eacut…
Appel à films MASHUP
GO, GO, GO les cinéastes vidéastes réalisatrices.teurs monteurs de tous poils ! Choisissez LA PILULE ROUGE DU MASHUP et rejoignez-nous du côté de la créativité débridée. A gagner notamment le prix Mashup CNC Talent d’une valeur de 3 000 euros ! … et la possibilité de postuler à des aides bien plus importantes. Plus de détails ICI APPEL À F…
Nick Park et Peter Lord, invités d’honneur de la 19ème édition de Mon Premier Festival
Le festival de cinéma jeune public de la Ville de Paris, organisé par l’association Enfances au cinéma, sera de retour pendant les vacances de la Toussaint, du 25 au 31 octobre 2023. Plus de 300 séances de cinéma, des rencontres et des animations autour des films seront proposées au tarif unique de 4€ la séance dans 12 salles de cinéma Art et Essai parisiennes ainsi qu’au Forum des images et à l…
11ème Festival international de cinéma War on Screen
Du 2 au 8 octobre 2023 WoS revient pour une semaine de cinéma du 2 au 8 octobre. Au programme, des avants-premières, invité·es d’honneur, équipes de films, rencontres, ateliers, et une large programmation de courts et longs métrages pour nous réunir autour du Cinéma. Mais avant plus de détails à la rentrée, découvrez le visuel WoS de cette 11ème édition. &nbs…
Des partenariats forts avec les plus grands festivals et marchés
Nous sommes très fiers des bonnes relations et des partenariats signé avec les plus grands festivals et marchés : Venice Production Bridge, FestForums Santa Barbara, AFM, Animaze, Tallinn Black Night International Film Festival, Houston WorldFest, Fantasporto, et Cannes Market bien entendu et beaucoup d’autres. Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir grace à ces parteneriats pouvoir apporter news et dailies à …
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