Film festival News
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Toronto -
Celebrating 10 years of the greatest cinematic-diplomatic mash-up in existence, the European Union Film Festival (EUFF) closes this weekend with with three new screenings, and three encore presentations.
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Toronto -
Toronto's first annual horror movie celebration gets off to a screaming start come November. With a combination of panels, parties, and a selection of horror-lore guests, HORROR-RAMA hopes to make its bloody mark on the local horror culture scene.
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The start of spring and warmer weather marks the start of international film festival season. In the U.S. the popularity of international film festivals has grown with almost every state hosting their own festival.
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San Sebastian -
San Sebastián is the place to be in Spain on Friday, as the San Sebastián Film Festival kicks off, with 13 movies lined up for the best film award. Hugh Jackman is due to receive a lifetime achievement award during the event.
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Toronto -
The latest documentary tracking the photographic project of Canada's Edward Burtynsky is visually mesmerizing, but it's also layered with an urgent message on how mankind has mishandled water and its ecological value.
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Toronto -
"I got a bad feeling about this mission," says George Clooney's astronaut character in one of the more foreboding lines in the upcoming film Gravity. Thanks to skilled direction and awe-inspiring visuals, this lost-in-space story surpasses expectations.
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Concert documentaries are not often remarkable. But Ron Howard's Made in America dazzles at almost every turn as he chronicles Jay-Z's massive 2012 music fest in Philadelphia, which brought together dozens of disparate acts.
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Toronto -
Forget its hefty three-hour runtime. Look beyond the explicit sex scenes. What makes Blue is the Warmest Color a standout film (and a deserved winner of Cannes' Palme d'Or) is the impressive acting courtesy of leads Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
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Champaign -
To the tune of Barry White's “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything”, Tilda Swinton jumped into the audience in Virginia Theater, Champaign, Il and inspired them to get up and dance in honor of the late Roger Ebert. Includes video of the event.
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Chicago -
One of the most famous film critics has died. Roger Ebert, a former television host and longtime Chicago newspaper columnist, has died at the age of 70 after a long battle with cancer.
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Los Angeles -
Angelus film festival was born 16 years ago, when a few people in Hollywood, disaffected by the negative coming out, got together to provide a venue for filmmakers to pursue positive themes and award them.
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New York -
The 2013 Athena Film Festival on the Barnard College campus at Columbia, NYC provides an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries and shorts that highlight women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world.
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Fresno -
This Sunday, do-it-yourself film innovators Dumb Drum of Fresno, California released their latest "Sweded" trailer to the public. This time their inspiration was the trailer for Marvel Studios upcoming Iron Man 3 movie.
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Toronto -
A delivery boy in a Paraguayan market is the highlight of 7 Boxes, debuting at the Toronto International Festival Market. His wild ride serves as the suspenseful engine for a film that should earn widespread distribution.
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Toronto -
If you look past the crotch shots, rib-thumping dubstep and ultra-violence perfect for a Clockwork Orange sequel, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is a fun movie destined to be a cult classic.
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Toronto -
Screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, Robert Redford's The Company You Keep succeeds as an entertaining thriller, but focuses too much on the adventurous journalist instead of the characters at the core of the film.
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Several truly creative gems stand out in the Short Cuts Canada programmes at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Here is our top six picks worth seeing.
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Venice -
Film Festivals around the world seem to be battling each other for bigger stars and bigger movies but this year's Venice Film Festival, that opened August 29th, is turning its attention away from celebrity and back to the films.
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Toronto -
A potential Hollywood blockbuster will open this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September. The time travel thriller, Looper, stars Bruce Willis and will be featured at the opening gala.
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Toronto -
Toronto’s Inside Out LGBT Film Festival has built up a strong loyal following of filmgoers over the 22 years since they began, and each year the line-up of feature presentations, parties, and celebrity attendees never disappoints.
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Toronto -
Thirteen days of movies, games, interactive exhibits and plenty more family-friendly fun are part of the 15th annual TIFF Kids International Film Festival, starting April 10 in downtown Toronto.
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Montreal -
People’s struggles around the globe will be front and centre in Montreal this weekend at the third-annual DocFest, a film festival featuring documentaries dealing with human rights issues.
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Park City -
With the 2012 Sundance Film Festival just weeks away, Cindy Meehl, winner of the 2011 Sundance Audience Award for "Buck," shared her perspectives on her film and on her experience at Sundance.
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Screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rampart is compelling but somewhat unsatisfying as the story of how an LAPD police tries to clear his name after being caught applying his own brand of street justice.
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One of the more timely films debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival is Think of Me, the story of an American woman struggling with her finances while trying to raise a precocious daughter naive to the despair weighing down her family.
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Toronto -
At the annual George Christy Luncheon at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Toronto, Canadian film stars such as Christopher Plummer and Atom Egoyan socialized with Canadian icons such as former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
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Sarah Palin – You Betcha! isn't so much a film focusing on the Tea Party favourite as it is about the bridges she's burned in her hometown. Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival, the documentary still needs a critical Q&A with Palin hersel
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Toronto -
Toronto may look like Hollywood North this week to the outside world thanks to the Toronto International Film Festival. But just steps away from all the glamour and glitz are real people doing what they do every day, living in the city.
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Toronto -
Madonna as a director was at the Toronto International Film Festival Monday evening to promote her latest movie W.E. The film stars James D'Arcy and Abbie Cornish.
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Toronto -
George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, is attracting Oscar buzz for good reason: the acting is top-notch, the tension keeps you hooked and its subject matter couldn't be more timely.
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The area where the Sundance Film Festival is held in Park City, Utah Courtesy Sundance Institute/Jemal Countess
iFilmFest app by Movidromo - Rodriguo Rubano Movidromo
Ryan Gosling stars in Clooney's The Ides of March Courtest TIFF
Theme logo of the film Festival held in Lagos, south west Nigeria
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SFIFF program director Rachel Rosen answered questions from the press in a panel discussion format. The Opening Press Conference held on Tues. March 29, 2011 was well attended.
On Nov. 2, 2014, Superfest was held at the Contemporary Jewish Museum which featured over 52 films about and by people with disabilities. Courtesy of Superfest 2014
"I loved the film festival and had a wonderful time. Being the MC was an honor," said comedian Nina G. "Often times the media misrepresents disability, that is why I think Superfest is so important." Nina's favorite films this year was "Vectors of Autism" and "The Mural." Courtesy of Superfest 2014
Superfest 2014, Festival Coordinators Catherine Kudlick Director of San Francisco State’s Paul Longmore Institute on Disability with Bryan Bashin, CEO of the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Courtesy of Superfest 2014
A still from the film Spring Via TIFF
San Francisco International Film Festival, executive director, Graham Leggat, addressed those in attendance at the Opening Press Conference for the festival held at the Westin St. Francis Hotel on Tues. March 29, 2011
A riot of colour – a British Film Institute publicity picture for the 24th annual Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in London BFI publicity picture
2012 Newport Beach Film Festival - Latino Showcase
Before the arrival of the VIP guests at the premiere of the Disney Pixar's Brave movie shown at Event Cinemas, George Street, Sydney.
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the White House Student Film Festival in the East Room at the White House in Washington, February 28, 2014 Reuters / Jonathan Ernst
Devour! The food/film festival, Wolfville, Nova Scotia Courtesy of Devour
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2012 Latino Showcase - Blue Bay film from Chile
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