BFI Flare 2024 in numbers
28,125 audience attendances across BFI Southbank screenings, events and short films on BFI Player
54% of all ticket bookers new to the Festival
87% occupancy at BFI Southbank screenings and events
58 features and 81 shorts from 41 countries
5 world premieres, 2 international premieres, 6 European premieres and 23 UK premieres across the feature films
285 filmmakers and their ...
Full Frame recognizes the generous contributions of the 43 regional and national sponsors of the 26th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which takes place April 4–7, 2024.
“I am humbled by the tremendous amount of support from so many incredible sponsors and partners. Their generosity enables us to produce a world class event that gathers together thousands of people to celebrate documentary film and artists, and also puts a spotlight on our wonderful city of ...
Edinburgh International Film Festival announces collaboration with Edinburgh Festival Fringe, unveiling new venues and programming strands
Out of Competition, Midnight Madness and Repertory strands will showcase the best in UK and World cinema
The newly relaunched Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has today announced a landmark collaboration with the renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe which will open up the Film Festival programme in new venues across the city i...
The short film SHOTPLAYER (2024), directed by Sam Shainberg, screened in the Documentary Short Competition at this year’s SXSW. SHOTPLAYER is an impressionistic journey into the mind of Wilfred Rose, one of New York City's most notorious pickpockets. As he returns to the subway for the first time in many years, he reflects on a life of crime in a society that has left many of its citizens behind. SHOTPLAYER asks the question: When is it ok to p...
Amaze on and on and on: Matka King, Dupahiya, Snakes and Ladders, Matka King and The Rana Connection
In the third part of my report, here’s the lowdown on four more shows that Amazon has lined-up, in various languages.
Matka King (Hindi)
In this fictional tale set in 1960s Mumbai, an enterprising cotton trader who craves legitimacy and respect, starts a new gambling game, dubbed ‘Matka’, which takes the city by storm and democratises a terrain previously reserved for the...
The 11th Edition of the SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival in-person section closed on March 18, at the National Arts Club in New York. The Festival opened at the Maysles Cinema on March 13 and ran at MRHS and Cinema Village. The festival covers social issues totaling 53 films this year. The Official Selection is accessible online through the festival website. The main themes are 100 Years of Armenian Cinema, Black History, BIPOC films, Aging and Disability, Women, LGBTQI+,...
Amaze on and on: Citadel: Honey Bunny (Hindi)
Raj and D.K. The duo that always pay! They take-over Citadel from and name their series Honey Bunny. “We believe in giving titles that are in sharp contrast to the content of the show. (Well, what else would you say about The Family Man and Guns and Gulabs, for example?”). Honey and Bunny, co-incidentally, happen to be the names of the leading pair, Varun Dhawan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, in the series. This is Varun Dhawan’s stre...
Amaze on Prime video: PLOTT A LOTT GOTT
Inviting us at 12 noon for lunch at a 5-star hotel was unusual. The practice is to invite you at 12 or 12.30 pm, and serve you lunch at any time between 3 and 5 pm. Oh, the price you pay for being a journalist! Proceedings begin at around 2 pm, and last for about 1- ½ --2 hours. Lunch dare not be served before the proceedings begin, or while they are on, because savvy organisers believe that starved journalists would wait, while ‘lunched&rs...
The Arthouse Cinema Training returns to Berlin this summer for its 21st edition.
19-25 AUGUST 2024
BERLIN, GERMANY
Don't miss it. Applications are open!
What is the Arthouse Cinema Training?
The Arthouse Cinema Training is an intensive one-week program that brings together arthouse exhibition professionals from across the world. The only program of its kind, the Training gives participants a unique chance to learn from top e...
RESYNATOR is a feature documentary film and synth resurrection project started by director Alison Tavel in 2014. The true story centers around a resurrected synthesizer (aka the RESYNATOR), that was invented by Alison’s late father Don Tavel in the ‘70s, which she dug up from her grandmother’s attic twenty-five years after his passing and has been on a mission to share it with the world ever since. RESYNATOR had its world premiere at SXSW on March 10th, 2024, and won the Docu...
