All Festivals articles – Page 79
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Reviews‘Once Again’ (for the very first time)’: Tallinn Review
A street dancer and a poet form a creative connection in Boaz Yakin’s unconventional New York romance
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FeaturesHow Marrakech is pushing on with its star-powered 2023 edition: “The festival needed to happen this year”
The festival runs November 24 to December 2.
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NewsSaudi fantasy romance feature ‘HWJN’ to open Red Sea film festival
Story of a kind-hearted jinn is a co-production from Image Nation Abu Dhabi, MBC Studios and Vox Studios.
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Reviews‘Bad Actor’: Tallinn Review
Intense Mexican drama observes what happens when an actor crosses a line during a sex scene
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NewsPaul Ridd named director of Edinburgh International Film Festival
Ridd, presently head of acquisitions at Picturehouse Entertainment, will take up the role in December.
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News“We made this film to be shown,” says Palestinian director of IDFA competition title ‘Life Is Beautiful’
“Standing here and talking about my film is the only way I can feel I am doing something,” said Mohamed Jabaly.
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NewsPeriscoop swoops on five docs at IDFA for the Netherlands
Periscoop is run by San Fu Maltha and Bruno Felix.
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Reviews‘Hiding Saddam Hussein’: IDFA Review
Iraqi farmer Alaa Namiq explains how and why he hid Saddam Hussein from US forces in 2003
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NewsPeter Greenaway talks ‘Lucca Mortis’ starring Dustin Hoffman, living in the Netherlands and his eccentric concerns
Greenaway is being honoured at this week’s IDFA festival in Amsterdam.
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NewsLes Arcs unveils projects for 2023 Co-Production Village
The event runs December 16-19 in the French Alps.
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Reviews‘The World Is Family’: IDFA Review
Veteran documentarian Anand Patwardhan turns the camera on his own parents to reflect on India’s turbulent history
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NewsNeon distribution head Elissa Federoff delivers upbeat doc forecast in IDFA keynote
“We have seen titles doing the best they’ve ever done before in this ‘unhealthy’ marketplace.”
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Reviews‘As The Tide Comes In’: IDFA Review
Residents on the tiny Danish island of Mando confront the realities of climate change in this immersive documentary
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Reviews‘The Last’: IDFA Review
Paraguayan filmmaker Sebastian Pena Escobar takes a personal trip to the country’s threatened forests
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NewsPalestine Film Institute welcomes latest statement from IDFA
Festival statement followed a PFI statement lambasting IDFA’s earlier statement.
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Reviews‘Selling A Colonial War’: IDFA Review
An examination of Dutch attempts to reframe the Indonesian War Of Independence
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NewsUS ‘Billy Elliot’-style doc ‘Call Me Dancer’ sells to Toei for Japan for First Hand Films (exclusive)
First Hand Films is at IDFA with a busy slate including portmanteau project ’The Ten Commandments’.
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NewsGeneva festival and digital market hands out prizes, celebrates buoyant year
The best feature prize went to ’Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’.
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NewsPalestine Film Institute urges withdrawal of films from IDFA following response to opening-night protest
The PFI has issued a petition demanding IDFA acknowledge the festival’s earlier statement ”unjustly criminalises Palestinian voices and narratives”.