The 18th Annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival rolls out the red carpet for Hollywood legends, Oscar hopefuls, sleuths and spies, glitzy singers and a gutsy beauty queen March 20 – 30, 2014, with 23 features, thrillers, romantic comedies, shorts and documentaries from 13 countries, screening in 5 venues over 10 days, announced Dr. Benson Monastersky and Ronny Siegel, Festival co-chairs.
Bank-robbing oldsters, thrill-seeking youngsters and Big Apple hipsters share the sp...
The organizers of Sudan Independent Film Festival (SIFF) announced the launch of its inaugural edition on the 21st of January, 2014 in Khartoum. Presided by Talal Afifi, SIFF has also confirmed Egypt as Guest of Honor of the first edition for its substantial role in the film industry of the African continent. SIFF also confirmed scriptwriter Sayed Fouad, President of Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) as honorary guest the first edition. “I am extremely happy because of the launching of SI...
LatinWorks, the full-service cultural branding firm named Ad Age's 2012 and 2013 "Multicultural Agency of the Year", has partnered with the cultural arts non-profit organization Cine Las Americas to produce an innovative fundraising platform which showcases an interactive film that provides multiple endings based on donation level. It launches on January 15th and can be viewed at https://savecinelasamericas.org.
The idea was conceptualized and produced by LatinW...
Berlinale Special is part of the official programme and presents recent works by contemporary filmmakers, as well as film portraits of renowned personalities and extraordinary formats. This year 18 productions have been invited to participate in Berlinale Special, including nine world premieres.
With many prominent guests expected to attend, the Gala Screenings are being held, as usual, at the Friedrichstadt-Palast and, for the first time, at the Zoo Palast.
“Wo...
43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam 22 January – 2 February 2014
International Film Festival Rotterdam adds How to Survive…, a program focusing on and broadening the idea of contemporary survival, to its thematic Signals section. Acknowledging the fact that global developments in society are the point of departure for survival films in both contemporary commercial and independent cinema, all ...
Cinema Made in Italy returns to London in 2014 and will take place at the Ciné Lumière in South Kensington from 5 - 9 March. Once again cinemagoers in the capital can look forward to seeing the best recent Italian productions, and as in previous years screenings will be followed by Q&A sessions with directors and actors. The five day annual event is organised by Istituto Luce – Cinecittà’s promotional department in Rome (Filmitalia), and the Italian Cultural ...
The 15th Anniversary Scandinavian Film Festival L.A.(SFFLA) “Surfs the Celluloid Sea” with cinema from across North Atlantic and Baltic waters Jan 18, 19, 25, 26 at the Writers Guild Theater 135 S. Doheny in Beverly Hills. The annual immersion into Nordic films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden adds "Hanseatic happenings" to the mix with a Norwegian/German co-production, and “Baltic Film Expo@ SFFLA” offering a film from each of the...
The 24th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, will run February 6-16, 2014. Sponsored by Leichtag Foundation.
The San Diego Jewish Film Festival showcases over 60 of the best contemporary Jewish themed films from around the world celebrating life, human rights, and freedom of expression. The mission of the Film Festival is to offer outstanding world ci...
Rotterdam’s Bright Future and Spectrum sections provide both an overview as well as an update of contemporary world cinema. Brought together by IFFR’s team of programmers, each selecting adventurous, important and fresh titles from their research territories, the sections provide the filmmakers and producers with the opportunity to present their works to a dedicated festival audience and attending film professionals. Both sections combined contain thirty-seven world pr...
Spectrum
The Spectrum section shows films by experienced directors and maestros of artistic and experimental cinema, offering a diverse and rich range of global perspectives. The 2014 line up comprises sixty-nine films in total, including fifteen world premieres, seven international premieres and seven European premieres. Spectrum includes three films supported by the Hubert Bals Fund.
Five Spectrum films were selected for the Big Screen Award Competition. Among these, world premiere...
Fifteen first or second features films by talented filmmakers from around the globe have been selected for IFFR's Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2014. They will compete for three equal Hivos Tiger Awards of 15,000 Euro each. Jury chair Elia Suleiman will hand out the prizes at the official awards ceremony on 31 January. The line up includes six world premieres.
Jury Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2014
The Hivos Tiger Awards Competition Jury 2014 consists of distinguished film maker Elia ...
Berlinale Talents 2014: 300 Talents from 79 Countries / Cinematographers Agnès Godard, Franz Lustig and Christopher Doyle to Mentor Talents / New Initiative “Berlinale Talents Market Hub” Powered by Canon
From a pool of 4167 applicants, an international jury selected 300 Talents from 79 countries and across the board of filmmaking disciplines. The Talents are invited to the HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin from February 8th to 13th, 2014 for the twelfth editi...
“Berlinale Bites" provides journalists with sporadic, compact information about our programme, as well as notes on various events, guests and service offers at the Berlinale.
#PressBerlinale
Follow us on Twitter! As of last November, the Press Office is using the platform under #PressBerlinale for short-term, up-to-date information, and will be twittering festival impressions during the Berlinale.
64th Berlinale Programme Press Conference
The pres...
Gregor (Sebastian Zimmler) in Hüter meines Bruders von/by Maximilian Leo © Matteo Cocco
With 14 films, including nine full-length fictional features, and five medium-long fictional and documentary films (20 to 60 minutes), the selection for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2014 has been completed. (See also the first press release from Dec. 18, 2013.) The programme will open with the fictional feature Hüter meines Bruders made, with the support of Sixpack, a project to promote ta...
By Maria Esteves – January 12, 2014
Despite record-breaking freezing temperature, the 23rd New York Jewish Film Festival 2014 (NYJFF 2014) Opening Night U.S. Premiere of LES INTERDITS (Friends from France), directed by Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski held at the Walter Reade Theater, Wednesday, January 8, was Sold Out! A special Q&A session with directors Anne Weil, Philippe Kotlarski, and producer Laetitia Gonzalez moderated by director of cinematheque programming, Dennis Lim, Film...
Gothenburg Independent Film Festival is a new upcoming festival for independent film makers arranged by the NGO Film För Fred (film for peace). The festival aspires to acknowledge and inform about the urgent social, environmental and political issues of the world. Using film to approach these questions in artistic and creative ways, we wish to create a common space where organisations, filmmakers and audience from different countries can meet to discuss and cooperate for future projects .
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Market Road Films, in association with BBC Storyville and A Third Party Production, is pleased to announce the world premiere of New York filmmakers Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. A 20-year chronicle of the remarkable rise and fall of the world’s most notorious weapons trafficker, the US-Russian co-production will screen in the festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Viktor Bout was a Russian ent...
* Need motivation to create something? A deadline? Bad Film Fest is it.
* Feel stuck and need to step back from a current project? Bad Film Fest is the cure.
* Always wanted to express your creative side but felt too embarrassed? Be not afraid. Bad Film Fest says, "Go for it!".
Any film you’ve ever seen, song heard, performance attended – artists put a lot of work into it. In spite of that, somebody out there hated on it. Nothing is universal. Every piece ...
The Second Luxor Egyptian & European Film Festival will run From the 19th to the 25th of January 2014
The Luxor Egyptian & European Film Festival is organized by Noon Foundation for Culture and Arts (NOONCA), with the contribution of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture as well as public and private organizations in Egypt and Europe. The second edition of the festival will be held from the 19th to the 25th of January, 2014.
The festival’s main g...
The 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) opened on January 3rd, 2014 with the US premier of "Belle" directed by Amma Asante, and screenings playing throughout the day.
The Festival opened with the US premiere screening of Belle (UK), followed by a reception at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Directed by Amma Asante, Belle is a period drama inspired by the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a Captain in the Royal Navy, stationed...
The 71st Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, will run on Venice Lido from 27th August to 6th September 2014, directed by Alberto Barbera.
The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. The Festival also organizes retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution tow...
Our 13th Annual edition will run November 28, 2014 to December 05, 2014.
MISSION & OBJECTIVE
MsFF's goal year after year is focused on motivating directors, screenwriters, actors, and producers to share their films with fellow filmmakers and industry professionals (to bring exposure to independent up-and-coming filmmakers.)
Miami Short Film Festival is an avid supporter of local and international culture and arts providing a powerful voice and leading to tomorrow...
JIFF is painted in the colors of Rajasthan and this year expectations are higher from the previous year.Experts from Film, Television and Theatre industry have been appealed for JIFF 2014. JIFF invites and welcomes people associated with these industries to attend its opening ceremony.
This year opening ceremony is organized at Rajmandir Cinema on February 1, 2014 evening. JIFF committee members have decided to dedicate its opening or closing ceremony to its home state, Rajasthan after ...
With today’s launch of the TEDDY poster, the countdown has begun towards the 28th TEDDY AWARD taking place in the framework of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival from 6 to 16 February 2014. The 28th TEDDY AWARD will climax on 14 February 2014 with a glittering awards ceremony at the Komische Oper Berlin. The Franco-German TV station ARTE will broadcast the TEDDY Gala for a 9th successive year.
The artwork for the 28th TEDDY AWARD is taken – as it was last year – from ...
