WHAT: The 48th annual Atlanta Film Festival and Creative Conference will take place Thursday, April 25 - Sunday, May 5, 2024 at the Plaza Theatre and Tara Theatre in Atlanta and virtually.  Media are invited to attend the red carpet Marquee screening of “POWER” on Sunday, May 5, 2024.  About “POWER””: In the United States, police have been granted extraordinary power over our...

The year 2024 marks a fortunate moment for Indian cinema as it has a presence at the Cannes Film Festival to talk about. Payal Kapadia’s film, “All We Imagine as Light” (2024), in Malayalam and Hindi, has the distinction of being the first Indian film selected to compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or in the past three decades—following Shaji N Karun’s “Swaham” (1994). Additionally, Sandhya...

ANOTHER EARLY OSCAR LOOK Joey Magidson of Awards Radar has posted his first set of picks for the 2025 Oscars and as has been my way, I've looked through them for possible TFF #51 titles.  Magidson has divided them into two parts.  Part One went up last Friday focusing on "Above the Line" categories.  Part Two will be posted later this week. ...

SIFF 2024 Lineup is Live SIFF announces lineup, tributes & premieres slated for the 50th Seattle International Film Festival, returning May 9-19   261 films with 18 World, 26 North American, and 14 U.S. Premieres make up the lineup for the Festival’s 50th anniversary, screening at venues across Seattle, including SIFF’s newly opened SIFF Cinema Downtown   SEATTLE – SIFF...

On the final day of the ÉCU Independent European Film Festival, a wide array of activities took place, from awarding the festival winners to providing workshops for guests. Tonight, the 19th edition of the ÉCU Film Festival took place, hosted at the Cinema Les 7 Parnassiens, in Montparnasse. An exciting day full of activities, workshops, conversations, and more importantly, a love for...

Regal LA Live 1000 W Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90015 Saturday, May 11th, 11am-9pm SCREENING BLOCKS PASSES & TICKETS 69 films from 16 countries, 3 auditoriums Q&A panel, cocktail party & red carpet photocall, and awards show...

SIFF announces lineup, tributes & premieres slated for the 50th Seattle International Film Festival, returning May 9-19   261 films with 18 World, 26 North American, and 14 U.S. Premieres make up the lineup for the Festival’s 50th anniversary, screening at venues across Seattle, including SIFF’s newly opened SIFF Cinema Downtown   SEATTLE – SIFF announced today...

Queer East returns for its fifth year with a programme of spectacular films. Established in 2020, the festival was born out of desire to create an artistic space for bold, unconventional and forward-thinking queer narratives originating from East and Southeast Asia and its diasporic communities. Over the past four years, 350 films have been screened in 42 venues across 23 cities in the UK,...

“Los Frikis,” directed by directed by Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz, took the festival’s top jury prize, the $20,000 MARIMBAS Award, at the 41st edition of Miami Dade College’s (MDC) acclaimed Miami Film Festival. The event ran from April 5 – 14, 2024. The award is an international competition for the jury-selected new narrative feature film that best exemplifies richness and resonance...

The Festival de Cannes is honoring a cinema legend, awarding its Honorary Palme d'or for the first time to a group: Studio Ghibli. Alongside the Hollywood greats, the Japanese studio embodied by two superb storytellers, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and a host of cult characters, has unleashed a fresh wind on animated film over the past four decades.   style="box-sizing:...