Berlin Film Festival Winners
Rose Byrne and Andrew Scott take acting honors at the 75th Berlinale. Source: Berlin Film Festival Winners
Resistance Film Festival condemns silence of global cinema
The Resistance International Film Festival is poised to amplify the voices of the oppressed amidst a worrying silence from the world’s leading film festivals, the secretary of the festival has stated. Source: Resistance Film Festival condemns silence of global cinema … Continued
The Hypocrisy of Sundance: Is It Still a Festival for Independent Filmmakers?
If you want your film to be taken seriously at Sundance in 2025, it appears you must shoot on an ARRI ALEXA 35—a camera that costs $80,000. How exactly does this fit into the narrative of “independent” filmmaking? If true … Continued
Indonesian Thriller About Dutch Colonization Closes Rotterdam
It is quite an interesting choice for the largest film festival in the Netherlands to close with a film that explicitly denounces the violence of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia, but one can always expect interesting choices from the International Film … Continued
Sundance Film Festival Takeaways: No Deals, No Politics
Before COVID upended things, leaving the indie film business that Sundance showcases struggling to regain its footing, the festival routinely hosted fierce bidding wars of the kind “Together” inspired. But with ticket sales in a rut, entertainment companies have been … Continued
‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Actor Banned From Leaving Iran
Soheila Golestani, the Iranian actor who stars in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has been banned from leaving Iran to serve on the Tiger Competition jury at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam. Festival director … Continued