Film Festival Circuit
FIFDH Returns
Situated in the heart of Geneva, the International Capital for Human Rights, FIFDH returns for another edition on 5-14 March. Outside of the main programme of screenings, the festival aims to bring together guests...
Tampere announces Festival Line-up
The Tampere Film Festival, which runs from 10-14 March, will this year celebrate its 40th edition. In addition to the main competition strands, this year sees an exciting array of programmes, with many filmmakers...
goEast Offers Free Press Accreditation
Press accreditation is now open for goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, which is being held in in Wiesbaden from the 21-27 April 2010. Press can access free accreditation is application forms are...
BUFF Announces Competition Line-up
The main competition selection for BUFF - International Children & Young People’s Film Festival has been announced. The festival runs from 16-20 March and features three competitive categories: Movies from 2010 in...
Fantasporto 2010
IFG Spotlight: Fright Night
With only Jennifer’s Body and The Book of Eli – where the apocalypse goes biblical – representing mainstream US cinema, Fantasporto opened itself to a wealth of European films from the last year....
IFG Spotlight: Shelter from the Storm
The general quality of new films notwithstanding, a retrospective programme in a festival is always a guarantee that audiences are going to see something good. Littered among the new releases at...
IFG Spotlight: Orient Express
This year’s selection of Asian features for the Orient Express strand of Fantasporto could hardly be more diverse, from martial arts and swordplay, through to horror and gross-out comedy. Ha Yu’s...
International Film News
Hurt Locker Dominates a Predictable Oscar Race
Kathryn Bigelow’s taut Iraq drama dominated the 2010 Academy Awards, beating its closest rival, Avatar, in all the major categories. Unsurprisingly, James Cameron’s sci-fi epic picked up most of the effects awards, recognition of the film’s...
Antichrist Romps Home at the Roberts
Mirroring the success of A Prophet at the recent Cesar awards in France, Lars von Trier’s controversial Antichrist dominated the Roberts, the Danish Film Academy’s equivalent of the Oscars. The film picked up a total of seven prizes, including...
The Door Wins the Aurora Prize at Tromsø
The most prestigious prize at Tromsø International Film Festival, the Aurora, which is awarded to the film and distributor that reflects the festival’s goal to ‘broaden the appreciation of artistically challenging films’, went to Anno Saul’s The...
World Survey
World Survey
A survey of the film culture and output in 123 countries, as reported by our network of correspondents around the world.
Directors of the Year
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Combining unusually modest working methods with highly distinctive visual sensibility, the films of Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan eloquently speak of the emotional impassivity that is an affliction of...
Country Focus
ISRAEL
With the worldwide success of the Israeli animation documentary WALTZ WITH BASHIR, contributing writer Dan Fainaru surveys the Israeli film industry and finds a prolific production bonanza of films and talents.
IFG Award
The 40th Door Wins at Cottbus
In its first outing at the Cottbus Film Festival, Elchin Musaoglu was the recipient of the IFG Inspiration Award for his moving drama, The 40th Door. Set in the director’s home city of Baku, Azerbaijan, it tells the...
