Latest festival news – Page 8
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NewsFiery Tilda Swinton speech opens 2025 Berlinale; Israeli hostages remembered on red carpet
Swinton calls out “state-perpetrated” crimes, affirms “faith in cinema”.
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NewsMark Adams joins Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival for 2025 edition
Ray Calleja named as festival director and Mark Adams as festival curator for third edition of Malta event.
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NewsPhilip Knatchbull, Thierry Fremaux address AI usage at Berlin conference
Knatchbull said AI can help local-language production find audience worldwide.
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News‘Girls On Wire’: first trailer for Vivian Qu’s Berlinale Competition title (exclusive)
Film follows two cousins pushed apart by family struggles, who attempt to reunite.
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NewsTodd Haynes, Berlin jury speak out against Trump and rise of far-right politics
Jurors embrace political dimension of festival; “I don’t want to fear anything,” says Maria Schrader.
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NewsDOK Leipzig director Christoph Terhechte to step down two years early
Terhechte will take early retirement after this year’s edition.
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NewsCPH:DOX unveils competition titles including 56 world premieres
Dox:Award competition consists of only world premieres for third consecutive year.
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NewsConnext to relaunch as Flanders Film Days with new projects from Lukas Dhont, Felix van Groeningen, Teodora Ana Mihai (exclusive)
The film-focused event will showcase fiction, documentary and animation projects by Flemish companies and talents.
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NewsJames McAvoy to receive honorary award at Glasgow Film Festival
He will receive the Cinema City Honorary Award at the March festival.
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NewsFocus Features acquires Wes Anderson’s Cannes-tipped ‘The Phoenician Scheme’
Universal Pictures International handles distribution outside North America.
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NewsMarcelo Caetano’s Cannes Critics Week title ‘Baby’ closes UK theatrical deal (exclusive)
Film about a young man abandoned by his parents who turns to sex work on the streets of Sao Paolo is sold by M-Appeal.
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NewsBFI delegation of disabled UK filmmakers attends Rotterdam
Inaccessability of festivals prompted British Film Institute to take a delegation of four UK-based disabled filmmakers to IFFR Pro.
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NewsLocarno Open Doors, Vision du Reel set to lose major Swiss funding from 2029
The decision by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation throws their future into question.
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NewsFrom cannibal horror to AI dystopias: industry execs on IFFR Pro’s standout 2025 projects
Screen talks to sales execs and producers about the project hightlights at this year’s CineMart and Darkoom.
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NewsCherry Pickers’ Huub Roelvink wins inaugural EFM Distributor Award
Benelux distributor to be honoured at European Film Market’s Kick-Off event on February 12.
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NewsIndonesian director Mouly Surya on ‘This City Is A Battlefield’: “I was trying to push the boundaries”
Filmmaker’s latest closes International Film Festival Rotterdam this weekend.
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News‘Facing War’, about Nato handling of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to open CPH:DOX 2025
Film will play in the main Dox:Award competition.
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NewsGeorgian drama ‘Tear Gas’ leads Rotterdam’s IFFR Pro winners
Nine projects win prizes from IFFR Pro’s Cinemart and Darkroom programme.
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NewsIncredible Film adds Dutch romantic comedy ‘About Women’ to EFM slate (exclusive)
Film is produced by Millstreet Films, the makers of hit Dutch series Máxima, and forms part of Incredible’s EFM slate.
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NewsCorneliu Porumboiu to be special guest of Visions du Reel
The Romanian filmmaker is best known for ‘12:08 East Of Bucharest’.