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EXCLUSIVE: Cédric Klapisch's Colors of Time, Anna Cazenave Cambet's Love Me Tender, Louise Hémon's feature debut The Girl in the Snow and Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague were some of the film winners at the 29th American French Film Festival in L.A. this year.  The six-day festival, which…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has unveiled the 2025 lineup for FutureFest, its student short film showcase spotlighting diverse filmmakers, which is in its third year. This year’s showcase will take place at the American Film Institute on Saturday, November 8. Filmmakers selected are representing schools…

Rowan Athale's biopic Giant, starring Amir El Masry as British-Yemeni boxing champion Prince Naseem 'Naz' Hamed, will open the fifth edition of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea International Film Festival. The news was announced at a press conference in the festival’s home city of Jeddah on Tuesday, as…

The Marrakech International Film Festival will pay tribute to Jodie Foster, Guillermo del Toro, Egyptian actor Hussein Fahmi and Moroccan star Raouya, at its 22nd edition later this month. Foster's career will be feted with a gala screening of her latest film, Rebecca Zlotowski's French-language…

Ukrainian producer and director Alexander Rodnyansky has pulled his work Notes of a True Criminal from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in response to its decision to exclude Israeli state-backed organizations and films from this year's edition. "My film is not…

Tokyo Taxi director Yamada Yoji told audiences at the Tokyo Film Festival on Monday that he admires how the Korean government has supported the film industry there for decades, and called on the Japanese government to continue to bolster funding locally, especially for live-action…

EXCLUSIVE: Carly Hoogendyk, the manager and producer from Omnipop Talent Group West, has set the lineup for the latest edition of her Newcomers comedy showcase, taking place at the Bell House in Brooklyn, as part of the New York Comedy Festival, on November 8. A rapid-fire comedy showcase for…

Actor and director Alex Lutz touches down in L.A. this weekend for the Northern American Premiere of romantic drama Connemara at The American French Film Festival (TAFFF) on Saturday evening, after which he will participate in an onstage conversation. The work, which world premiered in Cannes…

What better day than Halloween to review a sequel to perhaps the greatest horror film of all time. No, I am not talking about Halloween and its myriad endless follow-ups, but rather 1973’s The Exorcist, which with 10 nominations including Best Picture…

France’s Les Arcs Coproduction Village has unveiled the 18 European feature film projects selected for its 17th edition in December. The lineup includes upcoming films by Lina Soualem, Arman T. Riahi and directorial duo Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov. (scroll down for the full…

EXCLUSIVE: Janus Films has set a January 30, 2026 release date for Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason's family drama The Love That Remains and unveiled its trailer for the film. The work captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and…

Isabel Arrate Fernandez, Artistic Director of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), has confirmed its decision to become the first major film event to officially exclude Israeli state-backed organizations and films and explained the process and thinking behind the move.  The…