Festival & Industry News
France goes to Cannes all guns blazing
The French film industry is hosting the Cannes Film Festival once again, and is looking very well prepared for this 65th edition opening today. In the competition, beyond the national filmmaker trio (read more)...
Nanni Moretti: "The same attention and the same respect"
It was a media frenzy this afternoon on the Croisette at the press conference for the competition jury for the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Jury president Nanni Moretti answered questions, accompanied by the eight...
If you missed it in Copenhagen or London, you must taste it in Cannes
If you failed to book a table at Denmark's Noma (the world's best restaurant, which will open in London during the Olympics, between July 28-August 6), and you probably did - everything was sold out within 2½ hours -...
Final Cut signals Hungary's revival
After three years on the brink of economic collapse, despite successes such as a recent award in Berlin for Just The Wind by Bence Fliegauf, the Hungarian film sector is to make a comeback at the 65th Cannes Film...
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IFG Spotlight: Black Nights Film Festival Closes
The 15th Edition of the Black Nights Film Festival closed last night with the screening of Terence Malick’s magisterial epic The Tree of Life, in the presence of one of the film’s cast members, Fiona Shaw. The screening was preceded by...
IFG Spotlight: Just Film Festival Announce Winner
The Children and Youth film festival Just Have have announced the winners of their anniversary 10th edition. It was an edition that saw the first screening at the festival of a 3D film and an expansion of their programme thanks to the...
IFG Spotlight: The Best of the Fests
One of the great advantages of its taking place at the end of each year is that in addition to the many industry and audience platforms, as well as the special focus sections and retrospectives, Black Nights is also an excellent...
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IFG Award
Enemy at the Dead Ends Wins at Fantasporto
A blackly comical hospital thriller picked up the 2nd IFG Inspiration Award at the 31st edition of the Fantasporto International Film Festival. One of many strong South Korean films screening at the festival, Owen...
In Memoriam
Dennis Hopper
17 May 1936 - 29 May 2010 One of Hollywood’s most iconic figures of the last forty years, Dennis Hopper’s career has covered acting, directing, painting and photography, as well as living a life so colourful, it...
DVD Focus
Microcinema DVD
(Region 1) One of the most interesting niche labels in the US, Microcinema has created an impressive platform for ‘the acquisition, exhibition, and distribution of independently produced moving images of an artistic...
