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These things are only a part of me, they do not define all of me; unlike the main character in this dramatic, film festival winner.

This film festival winner also starred Celia Imrie (Imagine Me & You, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel franchise) as Bif, Joanna Lumley (The Wolf of Wall Street, Absolutely Fabulous - TV) as Jackie, Timothy Spall (The Party, Mr. Turner) as Charlie and David Hayman (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Sid & Nancy) as Ted.

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And Brazilian director José Padilha should have been just the audacious director to tell the story: recently at the helm of the Netflix series Narcos, he made his name with Rio hostage documentary Bus 174 and galvanised the Berlin film festival with his thunderous 2008 Golden Bear winner, the favela police drama Elite Squad.

The film received critical praise at the major film festivals at Sundance, Tribeca, and was the Teddy Award winner at the Berlin Film Festival.

A winner at festivals including Sundance, it's known for being filmed one day a week for 52 weeks and marries a documentary style with drama and a truly pervy thriller element that is intriguing if not always interesting.

A selection of heavyweight titles from top - drawer auteurs has been unveiled for this year's Cannes film festival, with previous winners of the Palme d'Or, Jacques Audiard, Michael Haneke and Ken Loach, all back in contention.

Other films that are definitely worth checking out that played at TIFF (and other festivals): Adam Wingard's rapturous and playful The Guest, Palm d'Or winner Winter Sleep, latest from master filmmakers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne Two Days, One Night, 3 and a half hour epic Li» l Quinquin, harrowing street life portrait Heaven Knows What, ambitious and transcending Jauja, and Mike Leigh's exemplary Mr. Turner.

In fact, nearly every Best Picture winner in recent memory made its debut at one of the major fall film festivals.

The studio is now the undisputed winner of the fall film festival season, thanks to Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water» and Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

The International Panorama section of the festival, which showcases international films from Europe, the U.S., the Middle East and South America screened a mixture of prize - winners from major A-list festivals, particularly Berlin and Cannes.

EDA Awards presented at Festivals are often a film's first award, and boosts industry and public awareness of the winner, often leading to sales, other festival appearances and funding for the filmmaker's future projects.

As previously announced, Wenders will also be receiving an honorary Golden Bear at the festival, with 10 of his films screening as tribute, including 1984 Palme d'Or winner «Paris, Texas» and his latest documentary, the Oscar - nominated «The Salt of the Earth.»

Check out the full list of all of the festival's winners, plus a rundown of where and when you can see each film in the coming months.

The film picked up surprisingly strong notices on the festival circuit, and Dench (a Supporting Actress winner in ’99 for «Shakespeare In Love «-RRB- could be due again, having just missed out on another nod last year for «Skyfall.»

MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES EXPECTED GUESTS FESTIVAL DATES ~ OCTOBER 6 — 16, 2016 Some of Hollywood's biggest stars will be appearing at the 39th Mill Valley Film Festival this year, including Oscar winner Nicole Kidman and Oscar nominees Annette Bening, Amy Adams and Emma Stone.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Directors Jason Reitman («Up in the Air»), Cary Fukunaga («Beasts of No Nation»), and Jeff Nichols («Take Shelter») are among notable former festival winners earning recognition for their first films.

Making the official selection for the 2014 SXSW and Edinburgh Film Festivals, the film was also the Grand Jury Prize Winner at the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival and won for Best Original Song at the 2014 Nashville Film Festival.

Winner of Best Picture Awards at numerous international film festivals including Sydney, Berlin and Fajr in its native Iran, as well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the film is an intimate drama about conflict within and between two families of vastly different social and economic standings.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

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You can forget your Palme D'Or winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, because they'll only be one film on everyone's sunburnt lips with the surprise announcement that Solo: A Star Wars Story will receive its world premiere at the festival.

The second of the «Carte Blanche» double bills began with The Last 15, Antonio Campos» sophomore short film which followed in the footsteps of Buy It Now (winner of Cinefondation «s First Prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival) and competed for the festival's 2007's Palme d'Or.

Two - time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple made Sundance history last month when her documentary «This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous» became the first YouTube Red original film to premiere as an official selection at the festival.

Once seen as a waning force in the film industry calendar, the world's oldest film festival has regained its status as a kingmaker for award - season hopefuls, with a record of launching films that have gone on to enjoy success at the Academy Awards, including two recent best picture winners in Spotlight and Birdman, and the film that took home the highest number of Oscars this year, La La Land.

More TIFF announcements, more major additions, so many world premieres at this year's film festival including the Midnight Madness line - up and more potential award winners to the schedule covering the entire spectrum from elder Hollywood statesman to dirty tramps and roughnecks.

The film, which had a limited theatrical engagement on May 3 through Fathom events, has been touted at various film festivals with awards including Winner Best Picture, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Screenplay and Best Breakout Performance — Boston Film Festival; Winner Audience Award for Best Picture — Austin Film Festival; Winner Outstanding Achievement in Film making, Best Actor — Newport Beach Film Festival; and Audience Award for Best Film, Audience Award for Best Actor, Winner Best Actor — Napa Valley Film Festival.

More than 100 of Van Gogh's paintings were re-imagined for «Loving Vincent,» which was the Audience Prize winner at June's Annecy animation film festival.

Of the documentaries (in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before going on to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US documentary grand jury prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.

Bookending its 5 - day festivities are opening - night film Billy Bishop Goes to War, FeFF Honorary Director Barbara Willis - Sweete's crack at John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson's slice of Canadiana, and festival closer Union Square, a Mira Sorvino starrer from former Sundance Grand Jury prize - winner Nancy Savoca.

Kidman dominated the festival with two films in competition (The Beguiled, The Killing of a Sacred Deer — both winners), plus How to Talk to Girls at Parties and the presentation of the television show Top of the Lake: China Girl.

However, the biggest winner and my own top favorite film of the festival was Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a tremendous piece of cinema (read my review) which is one of the best discoveries of this year's fest.

The international competition section does not attract a strong lineup, with even the winners of the Grand Prize rarely breaking out beyond the Asian festivals, and unlike Busan, there are few major films from European festivals.

Special Jury Prize was awarded to B For Boy director Chika Anadu, who accepted the award with great excitement and a shout - out to winner Marques - Marce, proclaiming to the room that 10,000 KM was her favorite film of the festival.

This film about the beloved TV pioneer, directed by 20 Feet from Stardom Oscar - winner Morgan Neville, won raves on the festival circuit and seems likely to stand as one of the documentary success stories of the year.

The opening scene in writer - director Trey Edward Shults» ambitious but taxing «Krisha» — winner of a Grand Jury Award at last year's South by Southwest film festival — simply but masterfully hints that the titular character is a bit of a train wreck.

Focus Features bookends the festival with two of the most highly anticipated films this year, The Danish Girl, starring Oscar ® - winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, MVFF 2014) and directed by Academy Award ® - winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, MVFF 2010) who will appear Opening Night, and Suffragette with director Sarah Gavron, producer Faye Ward and star Carey Mulligan, who are also scheduled to appear Closing Night.

The festival launched on October 8 with two Opening Night films, Tom McCarthy's investigative drama Spotlight, starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel McAdams; and Tom Hooper's transgender drama The Danish Girl, starring Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (MVFF37 Spotlight recipient) and Alicia Vikander.

Early today, Pedro Almodóvar and his Cannes jury announced the winners at the film festival's annual awards ceremony, but since it wouldn't be the Cannes awards without some surprises, they threw in a couple of bonus awards just for fun.

The festival will open with the acclaimed Pilgrim Hill, winner of the Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the Galway Film Fleadh, which beautifully evokes a tale of tough rural life in North Kerry, and will provide audiences throughout the county with unforgettable experiences in film, from unique musical accompaniments to an inflatable cinema!

James, umm the fact that like Guy said he is as good as you'd expect him to be, great reviews and remarks about a performance that earned him the best actor prize at the Canne film festival in May, and a previous oscar winner with a tremendous amount of talent.

I, Daniel Blake, about an ailing carpenter (stand - up comedian Dave Johns) battling Social Services for disability, screened early in the festival and was warmly received, although plenty — including our own man on the scene, Mike D'Angelo — were quick to note that the film was basically business as usual for Loach, now a two - time Palme winner.

The Cannes film festival has awarded its top honour to the film many tipped as winner before it even started.

With the 2015 Cannes Film Festival is full swing, Fandor is using its huge selection of Criterion Collection films to highlight past winners at the festival.

The world's most famous film festival has announced that this year's president, Steven Spielberg, will be joined by a cavalcade of heavyweight figures — including Oscar winners Ang Lee, Christoph Waltz and Nicole Kidman.

The film newspaper Variety ran an interview with the Australian Oscar - winner before the festival in which she said she'd had «many» relationships with women.

Austin's mega popular South By Southwest film festival is known for a lot of things, but their top prize winner each year typically isn't one of their strengths.

Her short film credits include El Doctor, which was acquired by PBS; Touch and The First Session, both of which were winners at NBC Universal's 2015 short film competition for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively;... Or Die and Shameless, which are travelling the festival circuit internationally; and Unfinished, which was acquired by the BET network.

While most film critics and fans were shouting their collective opinions on the Closing Night premier of Saving Mr. Banks, the festival announced the winners.