Sean Baker’s Anora bested a field of 10 nominees to win Best Picture (the film’s only win) at the 30th Critics Choice Awards, with Emilia Pérez, The Substance and Wicked leading the field with three wins each.
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Anora Wins Best Picture at 30th Critics Choice Awards, ‘Emilia Pérez’, ‘The Substance’, Wicked Lead With 3 Wins
Anora (Courtesy of NEON)
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‘Fiume o morte!’ and Raptures Win Top Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam
(Anne Reitsma) The hybrid documentary Fiume o morte! directed by Igor Bezinović wins the top Tiger Award along with the FIPRESCI Award at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Through dramatic reconstruction and documentary asides, Igor Bezinović captures the spirit of Italian poet, playwright, journalist, aristocrat and army officer Gabriele D’Annunzio, and the nascent fascism in his attempts to annex the city of Fiume (Rijeka) to Italy in the aftermath of the First World War.
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Slamdance Film Festival to Open with Rosanna Xia and Daniel Straub’s ‘Out of Plain Sight’ Documentary
Rosanna Xia and Daniel Straub’s Out of Plain Sight will open the 31st Slamdance Film Festival on February 20th at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
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Haifaa Al Mansour’s Saudi Thriller ‘Unidentified’ Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics
Unidentified by Haifaa Al Mansour (Sony Pictures Classics) Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the contemporary Saudi-language thriller Unidentified directed by Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda, The Perfect Candidate), and starring Mila Al Zahrani (The Perfect Candidate, The Cello) along with Shafi Al Harthi (A Woman’s Life).
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‘Dreams in Nightmares’ and ‘Night Stage’ Headline BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Night Stage (Courtesy of M-Appeal) The 39th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival (19th – 30th March) has set Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon’s erotic thriller Night Stage as its Closing Night Gala on 29th March and Shatara Michelle Ford’s road trip movie Dreams in Nightmares as a Special Presentation on 23rd March.
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Tommy Gulliksen’s ‘Facing War’ Documentary on NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Open CPH:DOX Festival
Facing War (Tommy Gulliksen | CPH:DOX) Facing War, the documentary directed by Tommy Gulliksen depicting Jens Stoltenberg’s final years as NATO Secretary General, will open this year’s edition of CPH:DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival) taking place March 19-30, 2025.
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J.D. Fernández Molero’s Peruvian Genre-Bending Gothic Film ‘Punku’ World Premieres at Berlin Film Festival
Punku directed by J.D. Fernández Molero (courtesy Cinema Tropical) Punku, the sophomore film by Peruvian Rotterdam Tiger Award-winning writer-director J.D. Fernández Molero [Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)], will make its world premiere in the Forum section of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
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‘On Swift Horses’ Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi to Close SXSW Film TV Festival
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi in On Swift Horses directed by Daniel Minahan (TIFF) Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva and Sasha Calle will close the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film & TV Festival taking place March 8-16, 2025.
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Ryan White’s ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Wins Festival Favorite Award at Sundance | Fest Announces 2026 Dates
Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley appear in Come See Me in the Good Light by Ryan White. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Brandon Somerhalder) Come See Me in the Good Light directed by Ryan White bested some strong contenders to win Festival Favorite Award, voted for by the audiences from all the new feature films presented at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
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Nicolas Cage, Demi Moore, Godzilla Minus One Among Winners of 52nd Saturn Awards.
Nicolas Cage in Kristoffer Borgli’s “Dream Scenario” The Substance, Dream Scenario, Dune: Part Two and Godzilla Minus One are among the film winners at the 52nd annual Saturn Awards.
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‘The Brutalist’, ‘Nickel Boys’, Conclave, ‘A Real Pain’ Lead 45th London Critics Film Awards Winners
Joe Alwyn, Guy Pearce, Stacy Martin, Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Raffey Cassidy in The Brutalist (Lol Crawley, A24) Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist won the top prize, and the film’s only win, for Film of the Year at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with Nickel Boys, Conclave, and A Real Pain dominating with multiple wins for other awards.
