‘The small, unheard film is the gem’: Dharamshala International Film Festival turns 15
DIFF founder Ritu Sarin and programming director Bina Paul on building a global non-mainstream cinema culture in Dharamshala as the festival turns 15
DIFF founder Ritu Sarin and programming director Bina Paul on building a global non-mainstream cinema culture in Dharamshala as the festival turns 15
Japanese director Kadowaki Kōhei’s animated feature “We Are Aliens” has won the Kau Ka Hōkū (Shooting Star) Award at the 46th Hawai’i International Film Festival, which handed out its jury prizes at an awards reception at the Halekulani...
EXCLUSIVE: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles has announced an inaugural partnership with the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina. Under the collaboration, NFMLA will bring a selection of eight short films by its alumni to the...
Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Debut,” starring Julianne Moore as a shy housewife who is cast in a community theater musical and transforms into a zealous Method actor, has been set as the opening film of the 23rd Marrakech International Film...
Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy The Debut, starring Julianne Moore as a shy housewife who discovers a passion for amateur theater, has been unveiled as the opening film of the 23rd Marrakech International Film Festival...
A lack of funding, and ignorance in the institutions that control it, keeps women at an inherent disadvantage in the film industry, Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat said at a Tokyo International Film Festival talk on the future of...
“Kuch Kuch Hota Hai,” Karan Johar’s first film as director, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji, will screen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2028 to celebrate its 30th anniversary, with Johar set to attend....
Director Karan Johar is expected in Edinburgh for a 30th anniversary celebration of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, partly filmed in Scotland.
French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis’ “Dao,” an expansive family saga spanning Europe and Africa, was awarded the Golden Spike for best film at Spain’s 71st Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) while Marine Atlan’s...
A French action film and an American indie romance are both up for grabs with international buyers at the Tokyo International Film Festival’s TIFFCOM market. Cappu Films has sold “Red Bird” to Kinologistika LLC for the CIS region, which...
Isabelle Huppert vampire film “The Blood Countess” lost as much as 20 minutes against the wishes of its director, Ulrike Ottinger, the veteran German filmmaker said at the Tokyo International Film Festival, which is hosting a...
Singaporean filmmaker Ang Geck Geck Priscilla’s debut feature “Ah Girl” won best film in the Asian Feature Film Competition at the Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards on Saturday. The film follows a...
The cast of “Godzilla Minus Zero” brought the glow of a Hollywood standing ovation to the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival on Sunday, two days before Yamazaki Takashi’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning “Godzilla Minus One” opens in...
Godzilla Minus Zero doubles the kaiju, but still has human stakes, according to director Takashi Yamazaki
Two major films, 'Ramayana: Rise of a Legend' and 'Godzilla Minus Zero', are set to release on Diwali weekend. Early screenings have generated mixed reviews for 'Ramayana' while 'Godzilla Minus Zero' has attained a...
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and Iranian-born Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat pushed back on the idea of a standalone Oscar category for exiled filmmakers, speaking at the Tokyo International Film Festival as Cate Blanchett’s...
The first five short films produced under Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund screened this afternoon at the Tokyo Film Festival, and the two-time Oscar winner was present alongside DFF fund directors Shahrbanoo...
German director and screenwriter Isabelle Stever’s “I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming” has won the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Ethical Film Award. The award, set up in 2023 with sponsor Sumitomo Corporation, highlights films that shed...
Known for her dark relationship dramas, including the 2017 multiple-award-winner “Dear Etranger,” Mishima Yukiko has taken a different approach with her latest film, “Two Cigarettes, Three Nights,” which is in competition at the 39th...
Two directors with films at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival said they once kept impending or new motherhood hidden from the people they worked with, at a festival talk on raising children while making films. Belgium-based...
Sanfic Industria, the industry section of the Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic), is turbocharged for an even stronger edition this year. Running concurrently with the festival, which runs Nov. 2 – 8, Sanfic Industria...
A political row has erupted in West Bengal's Kolkata after former CM Mamata Banerjee's nameplate at was painted orange and another one was removed ahead of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF).
Chinese artist and filmmaker Sun Xun never expected “Magic Atlas” to become the first animated feature selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival’s competition. “I never thought of ‘Magic Atlas’ as an animated film. To me, it...
Unspoken emotional wounds linger throughout “Between Us,” Japanese director Matsumura Shingo’s new film playing in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Nippon Cinema Now section, its strand for Japanese films. The film follows Makoto...
Indonesian filmmaker Ariani Darmawan stepped away from directing for years to raise a family. Her first feature, “Jani Be Good,” which is playing in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Asian Future competition, turns that experience...
Milcho Manchevski, the North Macedonian director whose 1994 debut “Before the Rain” won Venice’s Golden Lion and earned an Oscar nomination, is back in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival with “Sister Brother Manhole...
A new Japanese anime award planned for 2027 should put the people who make anime in the spotlight, industry leaders said at TIFFCOM, the market of the Tokyo International Film Festival. The session was moderated by Fujitsu Ryota,...
Keanu Reeves joined Japanese stop-motion feature “Hidari” after watching the project’s pilot film, with his team getting back to the filmmakers about a week after the screening was arranged to set up a Zoom call, director Kawamura...
Joseph Mazzello, the “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Jurassic Park” actor, heads the cast of “A Grim Life,” a supernatural thriller set inside Los Angeles’ Cecil Hotel. Hong Kong outfit Cappu Films has picked up international sales, it was...
Mathis Landwehr-led martial arts feature “Lion Fist” has been picked up for South Korea, Latin America and the CIS. Fellow Landwehr starrer “The Last Kumite” has also found a South Korean home, sales outfit Cappu Films revealed at the...
Veteran Indian actor Shabana Azmi and film critic and historian Marco Müller are among the guests at the first Kathmandu Film Festival (KFF), which runs Oct. 30–Nov. 1 in Nepal. Launched by Kathmandu Metropolitan City, the three-day...
Hong Sangsoo’s “Nowhere to Lay My Eyes,” a triple prizewinner at the 79th Locarno Film Festival, and Kim Jin-yu’s “Journey There,” the first Korean production to star “Beef” actor Justin H. Min, have picked up a new batch of territory...
Korean sales company Finecut has sold Journey There, starring The Umbrella Academy‘s Justin H. Min, to multiple territories. The Seoul-based company has also closed further deals on Hong Sangsoo’s Locarno film...
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced the recipients of the 2027 Virtuosos Award. The award acknowledges talent whose work in films has placed them at the center of the conversation around the year’s most...
UPDATED, 10:40 AM: The Santa Barbara Film Festival on Friday named the recipients of its 2027 Vanguard Awards. The honorees and their films are Carrie Coon (The Liberation), Mariana di Girolamo (Wild Horse Nine),...
Yash described his children's emotional responses after watching the world premiere of 'Ramayana: Rise of a Legend'. His son Yatharv expressed sadness over Ravana's actions in the film, particularly regarding Jatayu. The actor discussed...
Yash's seven-year-old son watched his father play Ravana in Ramayana and cried during the Jatayu scene, s The Times of India Sai Pallavi Reveals Yash's Son Cried After Watching Ravana's Battle With Jatayu NDTV ‘No,...
The Tokyo International Film Festival’s Tokyo Talk program presented a masterclass with Zeze Takahisa, director of the festival’s opening film, “Sukiyaki.” Held before a full-house crowd at Tokyo Midtown Hibiya, the talk focused on...