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SIFF 2022 Returns to Theaters After Previous Years’ Canceled and Virtual Festivals
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Seattle Times Art Critic
The Seattle International Film Festival, back in theaters after a canceled festival in 2020 and an all-virtual edition in 2021, will open April 14 with "Navalny," a…
Miami Film Festival Nominates ‘Freda’ and ‘You Can Always Come Home’ –…
Two family dramas, the feature film Freda and short film You can always come home won top prizes at the 39th Miami Dade College's Miami Film Festival. Presented in a hybrid format with indoor and virtual presentations, the 2022…
Cleveland International Film Festival announces films for Playhouse Square and streaming
The 46and The annual Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) kicks off in late March at Playhouse Square with 146 features and 182 shorts. After adapting the past two years with online…
7 Best Jia Zhangke Movies
What are the marks of a Jia Zhangke movie? There is emotional desire, rarely satisfied. Then there is the disconnection, miscommunication and alienation between people and the societies in which they live. Add to that the interference…
Icelandic cinema and series: Hell is charming
"Trap"
Iceland is an island of abundant volcanic activity with only 370,000 inhabitants. A natural paradise that has been chosen as the location for the exteriors of dozens of films and international series. But in recent years,…
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Highlights – February 26 | ABC Fox Missoula
The 19th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is a hybrid event. Screenings at Wilma, Roxy, ZACC and…
The Tampa Theater will screen all Oscar-nominated shorts
Starting Friday, the historic Tampa Theater will show all the best Oscar nominees for short films, including animated films, documentaries and live action. This all leads up to the big night of the Oscars on March 27; The Tampa Theater is…
Big Sky Film Fest Highlights for Sunday | Arts & Theater
NICK DAVIS Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
The 19th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is a hybrid event. Screenings at Wilma, Roxy, ZACC and MCT run…
Turn off the lights! The Big Muddy Film Festival returns to familiar surroundings
CARBONDALE — As the 44th annual Big Muddy Film Festival prepares for another year of showcasing some of the best independent filmmakers, one of Southern Illinois University Carbondale's signature events will return to a…
New film revisits student uprising during 2019 college financial crisis
AMHERST - It was a story that quickly left the pages and television screens of local media to attract the attention of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and other national media sources: Hampshire College, the…
Miami Film Festival announces 2022 lineup
The Miami Film Festival returns this year with a hybrid event that includes nine premieres, with three films bowing out at special red carpet presentations from March 4-13 in the Florida city. The festival previously announced that…
Animation directors are using new technologies and styles to tell modern stories
In today's high-tech world, there are as many ways to make an animated film as there are film genres. The best animated feature films of each year cover everything from family fare to real-life documentaries and everything in…
The day the new queer cinema said: Let’s do it
On January 25, 1992, the Sundance Film Festival convened a panel on contemporary gay and lesbian cinema and "the importance of this movement", according to the program. It was a bold statement that drew nine speakers to a podium at noon,…
NYC Indie Theater Film Festival 2022 announces lineup
The New Ohio Theater's NYC Indie Theater Film Festival has announced its hybrid lineup of in-person and online films for 2022, co-hosted by Allyson Morgan and Marc Stuart Weitz. NYCITFF features a selection of new features and shorts,…
Sundance documentaries feature enhanced storytelling via animation
What brings documentaries to life? For a growing number of them, they are colorful characters — literally. Animation makes documentaries more accessible to a wider audience, allowing filmmakers to dramatize scenes that can't be…
Sundance 2022 features a broader queer reach for a wider global audience
It wasn't supposed to be like this. Despite the success of an almost entirely virtual event last year, Sundance Film Festival organizers had eagerly prepared a hybrid festival for 2022 that would have allowed filmmakers, buyers, critics…
Jordan Raup’s 10 Best Movies of 2021
Following The Film Stage's collective Top 50 Films of 2021, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal 10 lists.
After more than 14 months without cinema, 2021 has finally marked the return to…
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival unveils lineup for hybrid screenings | Movies
The 19th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival unveiled its lineup Thursday from February 18-27, with in-person screenings at venues across Missoula and a virtual festival available to anyone, anywhere from February 21-March…
FilmWatch Weekly: Escape from reality with anime ‘Belle’ and nature documentary…
A scene from the Japanese animated feature "Belle".
Movies have always been about escapism, but these days the predominance of comic book characters and cartoon crooners on movie screens, and the dearth of recognizable human beings,…
Disney +: 10 Collections True Fans Should Check Out
Disney + is, far from the truth, a Disney lover's dream come true. With nearly all of the studio's best and brightest under one streaming platform, fans of their movies and TV shows have more than the lion's share of original content to…
World’s largest Jewish film show runs January 13-27, 2022
Miami Jewish Film Festival announces hybrid program with pop-up outdoor events and free virtual screenings of 148 films
The Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) is proud to announce the program and plans for!-->!-->…
Submissions are now open for the 20th Annual Tall Grass Festival
Tallgrass Film Association (TFA) announces that the call for nominations opens tomorrow for the 20th Annual Tallgrass Film Festival, September 28 through October 2, 2022 in and around downtown Wichita, Kansas.In addition to showcasing the…
Holiday Movies Guide: Something For Everyone To Watch This Season
Here is the recap of the prestigious baits and box office hopes that will open in the coming weeks.!--start>…
Amherst Cinema to present new films as part of the festival’s satellite program
AMHERST - Attending the Sundance Film Festival is no small feat. As the nation's largest independent film festival, Sundance has attracted around 120,000 attendees in recent years - and when travel, hotels, meals, and ticket prices are…
“The future is bright for Saudi cinema”
In its closing ceremony, the Red Sea International Film Festival ended with the same dynamism it started, albeit with a slightly more relaxed and festive note.While there was an air of suspense on opening night over the unfolding of Saudi…
Sundance opts for hybrid in-person online festival that includes documentary about Kanye
American rapper Kanye West attends the 2019 WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards at MOMA on November 6, 2019 in New York City. Image: AFP / Angela Weiss
Next month's Sundance Film Festival will screen all feature films in person in Utah and…
Sundance Film Festival to Include Documentaries on Bill Cosby, Princess Diana, Kanye West,…
The Sundance Film Festival returns to the Utah mountains in January with documentaries on Bill Cosby, Princess Diana, Kanye West and Lucille Ball and the directorial debuts of Eva Longoria, Tig Notaro and Jesse…
Sundance to Screen Documentary About Kanye West at Hybrid In-Person and Online Festival
Next month's Sundance Film Festival will screen all feature films in person in Utah and online for the first time, including a major new documentary on Kanye West, as organizers embrace a "year of experimentation" for the production…
Denis O’Brien, George Harrison’s former manager, died at age 80
Denis O'Brien, who was George Harrison's commercial director and produced several feature films with the former Beatle, has died at the age of 80.O'Brien's death was confirmed by his daughter, Kristen, who told the Associated press that her…
Sundance Film Fest unveils 2022 hybrid edition lineup
The Sundance Film Festival returns to the mountains of Utah in January with documentaries on Bill Cosby, Princess Diana, Kanye West and Lucille Ball and the directorial debuts of Eva Longoria, Tig Notaro and Jesse Eisenberg.The organizers…
Sundance Film Fest unveils 2022 hybrid edition lineup
The Sundance Film Festival returns to the mountains of Utah in January with documentaries on Bill Cosby, Princess Diana, Kanye West and Lucille Ball and the directorial debuts of Eva Longoria, Tig Notaro and Jesse…
Lady of Guadalupe – A Must-Do Streaming Experience on Amazon Prime in Spanish and English
# HAVE A LITTLE OF FAITH
Vision Films Inc. is celebrating the first anniversary of the release of Lady of Guadalupe to honor the annual feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12.…
Film STEPS As One: FRIED TALK FLiCKS remakes the landscape of independent cinema | Texas
AUSTIN, Texas, December 8, 2021 / PRNewswire-PRWeb / - "There are directors and then there are moment…
Slamdance Film Festival sets 2022 hybrid lineup – The Hollywood Reporter
The 2022 Slamdance Film Festival returns to Park City, Utah for a hybrid edition, with the festival in person January 20-23 and virtual screenings January 20-30.
This year's 28th edition includes 28 feature films and 79 short…
Panah Panahi’s Hit The Road Wins First Prize in Singapore | New
Panah Panahi's Take the road was named Best Picture at the 30th Silver Screen Awards in Singapore, while PS Vinothraj won Best Director for pebbles and Tolepbergen Baissakalov received the award for best performance for Fire. The…
The Ministry of Culture launches a competition for filmmakers
December 3, 2021 6:15 p.m. (UTC + 04:00)
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By Laman Ismayilova
The Ministry of Culture has announced a competition to support feature films in 2022.
The competition supports…
Whistler Film Fest Shifts to High Speed with Hybrid Model and Contestants “Lost…
The Whistler Film Festival is back with a hybrid offering that includes online and indoor screenings, as well as various talent programs, masterclasses, workshops and its Content Summit. The festival kicks off opening night with the…
Hero, henchman or ordinary man?
Has the volatile political environment of contemporary India changed the very definition and meaning of terms such as "hero", "henchman" and "ordinary man"?Have our conventional mores made a somersault in an atmosphere of fear?…
Paramount + hosts award-winning MTV Docs in November
Two award-winning pieces from MTV Documentary Films hit Paramount + in November, followed closely by a handful of shorts. Ascension, which won the award for Best Feature Documentary 2021 at the Tribeca Film Festival, and Sabaya, winner…
Thirty films that expand the art of musical comedy
Cinema musicals are back in vogue. This year's biggest releases so far include Jon M. Chu's film from Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights," Leos Carax's "Annette" and an adaptation of the recent Broadway hit "Dear Evan Hansen. ". Still…
New York Baltic Film Festival announced at Scandinavia House, November 3-14
The fourth annual New York Baltic Film Festival presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America returns in 2021 as a hybrid festival with in-person and virtual screenings from November 3-14.This year, the festival will present…
Modern documentary pioneer Robert Drew dies at 90-World News, Firstpost
Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of modern documentary and the spontaneous style known as cinema verite, has died at the age of 90.…