The Whistler Film Festival combines an esteemed
international film competition with a concentrated onscreen industry Summit organized to address the ever - evolving landscape crossing borders and platforms in the digital age.
Not exact matches
Below, find out what critics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including
films that screened out of
competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and
International Critics» Week programs.
The rush paid off: At least judging from the Screen
International scores, «You Were Never Really Here» was one of the two best - reviewed
films of the 19 in
competition.
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY
COMPETITION This year's 12
films were selected from 796
international documentary submissions.
Some of the jokes were spot on, guest appearances from the likes of David Cross and Flula slayed me, the final performance at the
international competition had me in tears but the rest of the
film was as flat as TV I watched it on.
Festival organisers have revealed the slate of
films by American and
international directors that will be in
competition at the independent
film showcase, which runs from January 22 to 31.
The Platform Prize, a new juried
competition at the festival, chose «HURT» by Alan Zweig from among 12
films by
international auteurs.
Her debut feature
film It Felt Like Love premiered at the Sundance
Film Festival in NEXT and the
International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger
Competition in 2013.
American Director Julie Taymor's The Tempest has been chosen as the closing night
film (Out of
Competition) for the 67th Venice
International Film Festival.
Highlights of the Kerry
Film Festival include an
international short
film competition, a curated programme of features
films, a showcase of Kerry talent, live
film music events and niche
film events in unique venues.
Berlin
International Film Festival - Day 2February 8, 2008A few hours of sleep and five
films later... Two standouts amongst the offerings thus far, the
Competition title «In Love We Trust» and the European Film Market title «Phoebe in Wonderlan..
Based on my ScreenAnarchy colleagues» reviews, Der Samurai, Escape from Tomorrow, Kid's Police, and Open Windows are definitely must - see
films and all of them are part of Fantaspoa's
International Competition.
Its opening
film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its
competition strand has an impressive list of
international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster
film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.
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Film de Cannes will launch with a screening of Woody Allen's new
film, Café Society, on Wednesday 11 May in the Palais des Festivals's Grand Théâtre Lumière as an Official Selection Out of
Competition title.
Except for Alps, which screened in Venice, all of Lanthimos»
films premiered on the Croissette and this year marks the second time for the director to compete in the Official
Competition with an English - language
film and an
international cast.
The
film was previously announced as part of the main
competition at the upcoming Venice
International Film Festival.
Hogg's latest
film, her third, will have its world premiere at Locarno in the festival's
international competition line - up.
Jury protocol entails some discretion about what I saw, but I can honestly say that, between the three feature juries doing duty this year — the others being Arturo Ripstein's
international competition jury and the «Cineasti del Presente» jury under Dario Argento — most of the
films that I valued, in whatever section, were honored one way or another.
Out of the
competition, the
international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster
film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.
The
film premiered in
competition at the Cannes
International Film Festival this past May — to standing ovations, and will screen at the current edition of the New York
Film Festival.
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.
The France - born Benhaim's 40 - minute
film — an evocative mood piece in which a young girl wanders through present - day Morocco surrounded by ghostly voices — was one of three works given the shorts
competition's top prize at this year's edition of the Rotterdam
International Film Festival (IFFR).
So this year there was an abundance of homegrown
films (in excess of 30), but the consensual hope was that both genius and awesome would be uncovered over in the competitive Cinema of the Future or
International Competitions.
starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Ed Harris; the latest from Guillermo Del Toro, «The Shape of Water»; and George Clooney's «Suburbicon,» starring familiar face Matt Damon, who appears in two of the 21
films in the
international competition.
The
film didn't just top the annual critics» poll conducted by Screen
International, which tracks responses to the
competition titles day by day.
12 movies are featured in the Official
Competition, with local
films and
international releases duking it out for the top prize of $ 60,000.
There are both a Korean and an
International Competition section, although both lack in the prestige names of larger festivals, as well as a Korean and World Cinemascape, encompassing previous debuted and often acclaimed
films.
The
film, produced by Fastnet Films, also screened in
competition at the Toronto
International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Cinematography at the Irish
Film and Television Awards.
The witty, heavily - stylized
film was an
international hit, and led to follow - up «The City Of Lost Children,» a bigger - budget steampunk fable that played in
competition at Cannes in 1995.
Stylish, quirky but substantive, and with every frame filled with evocative and hilarious detail, the Jury Prize for best
film in the official
competition of the 2016 Seattle
International Film Festival goes to Girl Asleep by Rosemary Myers.
Babai, a debut
film written and directed by Visar Morina has had an immense success, having its
international premier in Karlovy Vary the
film won best directing in main
competition in Karlovy Vary.
The
competition alone includes new
films from famous
international auteurs such as: Isabel Coixet, Hong Sangsoo, Doris Dorrie, Robert Guediguian, Errol Morris, Majid Majidi, Mike Leigh, Erick Zonca, Andrzej Wajda, and Johnnie To.
The first seven
films for the 65th Berlin
International Film Festival
Competition programme have been selected.
My short
film The Maid of Honor was an Official Selection of the Sedona
International Film Festival and my time travel screenplay The Jane Austen Syndrome has been recognized by numerous screenplay
competitions, including those sponsored by The Austin
Film Festival, Cinequest, The Big Apple
Film Festival and MORE magazine.
California chipmaker Intel and New York - based W Hotels
International announced the Four Stories short
film competition.
The
film was selected for the Sundance
Film Festival (Dramatic
Competition), the Mannheim
International Film Festival (Germany), the Asian American
International Film Festival (New York), the Hawaii
International Film Festival, and the Fukuoka Asian
Film Festival (Japan).
Chris produced over a dozen
films including feature
films that appeared in
competition in numerous
international film festivals.
Ammar Al Beik's latest fictional short
film, «Kaleidoscope» (2015), has been shortlisted for the «Muhr»
competition, a prestigious open call that supports and rewards Arab filmmakers as part of the Dubai
International Film Festival (DIFF).
Moreover, the directors and producers of all
films that receive awards are obliged to deposit a copy of their
film with the ASAC, at least in high - definition Digibeta, complete with the official logo, along with the indication of the
competition section and every award won by the
film at the 75th Venice
International Film Festival.
Recent exhibitions and screenings include the fifth Moscow
International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow RU (2016); Hidden Depths, Cosmos Carl (online platform)(2016); Tenderflix, international film and video competition, Tenderpixel and ICA London, UK; Man in the Anthropocene, Harbinger, Réykjavik IS (2015); The Post-Material Antiquarian, Fanfare, Amsterdam NL, and No
International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow RU (2016); Hidden Depths, Cosmos Carl (online platform)(2016); Tenderflix,
international film and video competition, Tenderpixel and ICA London, UK; Man in the Anthropocene, Harbinger, Réykjavik IS (2015); The Post-Material Antiquarian, Fanfare, Amsterdam NL, and No
international film and video
competition, Tenderpixel and ICA London, UK; Man in the Anthropocene, Harbinger, Réykjavik IS (2015); The Post-Material Antiquarian, Fanfare, Amsterdam NL, and No Time to Hang!
In 1968, the
film Kusama's Self - Obliteration which Kusama produced and starred in won a prize at the Fourth
International Experimental
Film Competition in Belgium and the Second Maryland
Film Festival and the second prize at the Ann Arbor
Film Festival.
The Aurora Awards is an
international competition that recognizes excellence in the
film and video industries, specifically targeting commercials.
IPFF.TV is a new app for the
International Peace and Film Festival with trailers and full
films from the
competition.
Thiruvananthapuram About Blog
International Film Festival of Kerala has a
competition section for
films from the Asian, African and Latin American
films.