Award winners of the 31st Oldenburg International Film Festival, Highlights of the festival and final results

For Five Days the international world of independent cinema attended the Oldenburg International Film Festival :11-15. September 2024

 

This evening, prior to the closing film »Marcello Mio« by Christophe Horoné, the award winners were presented at the ceremony in the Oldenburg State Theater. »James« by Max Train won the German Independence Award for Best Film, Santiago Mohar Volkow's »A History of Love and War« was honored with the Spirit of Cinema Award, »Flieg Steil« by Martina Schöne-Radunski and Lana Cooper won the Audacity Award. »Baby Brother« by Michael J. Long was awarded the Hans Ohlms Award for Best Debut Film. »Nostalgia of a (Still) Alive Heart« by Diego Gaxiola won the German Independence Award for the best short film. In addition, the Seymour Cassel Award went to Tim Blake Nelson for »Bang Bang« and Aki Kigoshi for »A Wasted Night« for their outstanding acting performances.

German Independence Award – Best Film

»James« by Max Train

The European Film Academy reveals the nominations for LUX – The European Audience Film Award

ANIMAL, DAHOMEY, FLOW, INTERCEPTED and JULIE KEEPS QUIET have been shortlisted for the 2025 Lux European Audience Film Award.

The European Film Academy reveals the nominations for LUX – The European Audience Film Award, presented by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy in partnership with the European Commission and Europa Cinemas. The five shortlisted films were announced today during an announcement event at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

These are the five nominated films:ANIMAL directed by Sofia Exarchou (Greece, Austria, Romania, Cyprus, Bulgaria)

DAHOMEY directed by Mati Diop (France, Senegal, Benin)

FLOW directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia, France, Belgium)

INTERCEPTED directed by Oksana Karpovych (Canada, France, Ukraine)

JULIE KEEPS QUIET directed by Leonardo van Dijl (Belgium, Sweden)Next steps

The winner of the LUX Audience Award is chosen jointly by citizens across the EU and by MEPs. A platform to rate the nominated films will be open from 18 September until April 2025. The winner will be announced in April 2025 at a ceremony in the European Parliament in Brussels, in the presence of the representatives of the finalist films. Between September 2024 and April 2025, screenings and debates about the films will be organised by the Parliament together with MEPs.

Opening film, first titles and retrospectives of the 28th Ji.hlava

 

MAREK ŠULÍK’S MS. PRESIDENT WILL OPEN THE 28TH JI.HLAVA FIRST TITLES AND RETROSPECTIVES HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED First titles were presented at the press conference of the 28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. The festival will be opened by the world premiere of the anticipated time-lapse portrait of Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová, Ms. President, directed by Marek Šulík. The festival programme will offer new documentaries from across the world, retrospectives, the best of experimental filmmaking, a number of non-competitive programme sections and traditionally a rich industry programme for film professionals. Audiences can also look forward to Peter Kerekes' documentary comedy about an Italian fortune teller, Wishing on a Star, or a documentary thriller War Correspondent following Martin Dorazín, correspondent in Ukraine.

Wim Wenders received FIAF international film archive award

FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives, presented its 2024 FIAF Award to acclaimed German filmmaker Wim Wenders during a special ceremony in Budapest, Hungary, on 19 September 2024 as part of the 7th Budapest Classics Film Marathon. The presentation ceremony took place at the Uránia National Film Theatre and was hosted by the National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive, a Member of FIAF since 1955.

Since 2001, when the inaugural FIAF award was presented to Martin Scorsese for his groundbreaking advocacy for the cause of film preservation, FIAF has bestowed its annual award to celebrate a film personality external to the archival world whose experience and personal commitment to cinema underlines FIAF’s missions. Past recipients include some of the greatest figures of world cinema: Manoel de Oliveira (2002), Ingmar Bergman (2003), Geraldine Chaplin (2004), Mike Leigh (2005), Hou Hsiao-hsien (2006), Peter Bogdanovich (2007), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (2008), Rithy Panh (2009), Liv Ullmann (2010), Kyoko Kagawa (2011), Agnès Varda (2013), Jan Švankmajer (2014), Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi (2015), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (2016), Christopher Nolan (2017), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2018), Jean-Luc Godard (2019), Walter Salles (2020), Amitabh Bachchan (2021), Tilda Swinton (2022), and Guillermo del Toro (2023).

The 5th Tokyo Gap-Financing Market welcomes 15 projects + 5 Italian Focus Projects for Financing and Project Development

The 5th Tokyo Gap-Financing Market

welcomes 15 projects + 5 Italian Focus Projects

for Financing and Project Development

Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2024

at TIFFCOM (Tokyo International Film Festival's Affiliated Content Market)

 

~Many previously participating films have been highly acclaimed at festivals and cinemas around the world~

TIFFCOM (an affiliated content market of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF)) will hold the 5th Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (TGFM) at TIFFCOM 2024, which will open at Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho-Kan from October 30 to November 1, 2024. TGFM serves as a platform for selected feature-length film projects in the financing stage; TIFFCOM provides one-on-one meeting opportunities with industry professionals in order to support project development and financing. TGFM features film projects which have secured at least 60% of the entire budget and contain Asian elements.

This year's TGFM will spotlight projects from Italy in celebration of the call for entries for co-productions under the Italy-Japan Film Co-Production Agreement, which opened in August, 2024. Including these 5 projects specially-selected thanks to the Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Italian Ministry of Culture and Cinecittà, 20 projects (14 live-action and 6 animation) in total will participate.

San Diego Intl Film Festival Opening & Closing Night Films Announced

Have you heard the buzz?

One of the favorites at both Telluride and Toronto film festivals

is on its way to San Diego for Opening Night!

Zurich Film Festival 2024 - Full Programme and Guests Announced

 More Stars Than Ever Before

 

Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey, Peter Saarsgard, Iris Berben, Veronica Ferres, Pamela Anderson, Richard Gere, Jude Law, Howard Shore, Alicia Vikander, Marco Odermatt, Lara Gut-Behrami and Emil Steinberger.

In its anniversary year, the Zurich Film Festival (10.3.-10.13.) is lighting a real firework of stars: Pamela Anderson, Kate Winslet, Howard Shore, Emil Steinberger, Alicia Vikander and Jude Law will be awarded a Golden Eye. Swiss director Edward Berger will be honored with the A Tribute to… Award and a total of twelve Swiss films will celebrate their world premiere at the ZFF. This year’s program includes 107 films, 35 among them making a World or European Premiere.

The anniversary edition of the Zurich Film Festival features an unprecedented lineup: High-caliber stars from Hollywood, Britain, Germany and Switzerland will present their new films to their viewers in person.

Christian Jungen, Artistic Director of the ZFF expresses his excitement: ‘We are celebrating our 20-year anniversary by honoring a major film star every day – from Jude Law on day one to the competition winners on day ten. In total, we will be awarding eleven talents or films a Golden Eye. A veritable celebration with substance and glamour. This high number shows that the Zurich Film Festival is gaining more and more importance in the international film industry. The Zurich Film Festival is the ideal festival to boost films with prestige for the award season and to lay a foundation of a successful launch in the German-speaking region, which is one of the most important markets for Hollywood considering it comprises 100 million people.

Festival international d'Autrans: découvrez l'affiche de la 41ème édition 2024

S’excentrer.
S’extraire.
Prendre de la distance avec poésie.
Oser la marginalité.

Voici le nouveau rendez-vous proposé par le
Festival international d’Autrans - Montagne, cinéma & culture.
4 > 8 décembre 2024


Après avoir atteint la maturité de la quarantaine, le Festival d'Autrans s'affirme dans ce qu'il a de plus audacieux : sa ligne éditoriale et artistique !
C'est d'ailleurs dans cet état d'esprit qu'il est devenu cette année le
Festival international d'Autrans - Montagne, Cinéma & Culture, assumant ainsi ce qu'il est vraiment : un coeur palpitant de propositions cinématographiques, principalement documentaires mais pas que, et d'invitations artistiques variées, toujours témoins de la vie dans les montagnes du monde.

Voici l'affiche du Festival 2024 que nous vous partageons en nouveauté de ce jour !
Poétique, dynamique, joyeux équilibre entre la tornade qui bouleverse le monde et les poétes ou autres êtres pleins de beauté qui l'animent et alimentent toujours et encore nos rêves.