The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has unveiled its full slate for its 24th edition, bookended by Mahesh Narayanan’s Malayalam espionage thriller “Patriot” as the opening film and Anusha Rizvi’s Delhi-set comedy “The Great Shamsuddin Family” as the closing night selection. The program totals 27 films – seven narrative features, two documentary features and […]

SXSW London has unveiled the first music acts for its 2026 edition, including Afrobeats superstar Tiwa Savage, rapper Earl Sweatshirt and singer-songwriter Rachel Chinouriri. After its inaugural edition last year, the festival returns to London’s Shoreditch neighborhood from June 1-6 and promises to “bring together artists from across the globe, presenting emerging voices and underground […]

The countdown is on — it’s the final two weeks of Aspen Film’s third annual Radical Wednesdays Retro Ski Film Series, hosted every Wednesday in March by Clay Dahlman at 7 p.m. at the Aspen Isis Theatre. […]

At this year’s FILMFEST DRESDEN, the versatile artist Jyoti Mistry is the focus of a special tribute. As a filmmaker, installation artist and scholar, she operates at the intersections of art, cinema and critical visual practice. For Mistry, film is far more than a narrative medium – it serves as a ... Preview on FFDD26: Tribute to Jyoti Mistry

The history of cinema began with “La Sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon” – and with it the close connection between film and the world of work. This early film by the brothers Auguste Lumière and Louis Lumière shows workers leaving a factory and symbolises the social change that has shaped the medium ... Preview on FFDD26: Retrospective - Places of Work

The inaugural Skyfire Environmental Film Festival will feature documentaries “Kuleana,” narrated by Woody Harrelson, and “Fork in the Road,” backed by Nick Offerman, as the opening and closing night films, respectively. Skyfire aims to be more than a traditional film festival. Instead, the three-day environmental film and sustainability activation — set to take place March […]

A lucky eight film projects have landed support via Hubert Bals Fund’s HBF+Europe support schemes. The HBF+Europe: Minority Co-production Support scheme provides advanced financing for production, whilst HBF+Europe: Post-production Support helps consolidate funding once shooting is complete.

(L-R) The cast and crew of “Dead Lover” at The Ray Theater for its premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo by Robin Marshall/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) By Jordan Crucchiola   “Only at Midnight!” is a tagline that could rightly be emblazoned across a poster for Dead Lover, a horror-inflected comedy from writer, […] The post The Premiere of “Dead Lover” Showcases...