Italian director Marco Bellocchio will present his new film Marx Can Wait in the Premiere section at Cannes Film Festival, and receive an Honorary Palme d’or during the Closing Ceremony.
Film Festivals
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Director Marco Bellocchio to Receive Honorary Palme d’or + Premiere ‘Marx Can Wait’ at Cannes Festival
Marco Bellocchio © RR
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San Sebastián Festival Acting Awards go Gender Neutral + Sigourney Weaver Featured on Official Poster
Sigourney Weaver featured on the 69th San Sebastián Festival official poster Starting with this year’s 69th San Sebastián Festival, the festival will be gender-neutral in its acting awards. The Silver Shell for best actor and best actress will be replaced by the Silver Shell for best leading performance and for best supporting performance.
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HollyShorts Film Festival Announces 2021 Dates with a Return to In-Person Events
HollyShorts Film Festival (dp) The Oscar-Qualifying® HollyShorts Film Festival returns for its 17th edition as an in-person event, September 23-30, 2021 at the TCL Chinese Theaters in Hollywood, with the annual, star-studded Awards Gala set to take place on October 1, 2021.
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‘The Story Won’t Die’ Documentary on Exiled Syrian Artist-refugees to Premiere at AFI Docs
Rapper Abu Hajar and Choreographer Medhat Aldaabal collaborate outside the defunct Tempelhof Airport in Berlin in The Story Won’t Die (film stills by Luise Schroeder courtesy of Caesura Media and RaeFilm Studios) The documentary film, The Story Won’t Die, which demonstrates the resilience of exiled Syrian artist-refugees who process their pain and circumstances through music, painting, dancing and other mediums will premiere at the 2021 AFI Docs Film Festival
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John Landis to be Honored at Locarno Film Festival with Pardo d’onore Manor award
John Landis and wife, Deborah Nadoolman Landis at the Downsizing premiere and Opening Ceremony, 74th Venice Film Festival (dp) Director, screenwriter, and actor John Landis will receive the Pardo d’onore Manor award at the Locarno Film Festival. Landis will also join a panel discussion with the audience, while Locarno74 will feature screenings of three landmark titles from his career: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), Trading Places (1983) and Innocent Blood (1992).
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‘Mr Bachmann and His Class’ and ‘The Last Forest’ Win Berlin Film Fest Audience Awards
Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (Mr Bachmann and his Class) Mr Bachmann and his Class (Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse) by Maria Speth won the Berlinale Competition Audience Award at Summer Special edition of the 71st Berlin International Film Festival. In the German film, a charismatic teacher helps his students, who all come from different countries originally, with the key to feeling at home in Germany and becoming citizens of the world.
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Leah Purcell’s ‘The Drover’s Wife The Legend Of Molly Johnson’ to Open Melbourne International Film Festival
The Drover’s Wife The Legend Of Molly Johnson Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) returns August 5-22, opening with the Australian premiere of Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife The Legend Of Molly Johnson. A vivid reckoning with Australia’s colonial history, the revisionist outback western speaks emphatically to the realities, both past and present, of racial injustice – told through the lens of an Indigenous woman. The film completes a multi-format trilogy based on Henry Lawson’s 1892 short story, which began with Purcell’s award-winning play and subsequent novel The Drover’s Wife.
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Cannes Film Festival Focuses on Environment with ‘Cinema for the climate’ Selection
Above Water by Aïssa Maïga © Rousslan Dion, Bonne Pioche Cinéma – 2021 As a way of embodying its commitment to the environment, the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has chosen a selection of films on the environment in its Cinema for the climate special section.
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Yana Ugrekhelidze’s ‘Instructions for Survival’ Wins Compass-Perspektive-Award at Berlin Fest Summer Special Edition
Yana Ugrekhelidze (Instructions for Survival) © Daniel Seiffert / Berlinale 2021 Yana Ugrekhelidze’s Instructions for Survival (Germany) was awarded the Compass-Perspektive-Award at Berlin Film Festival Summer Special. The award is presented to the best film from the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programof the Berlinale Summer Special tonight.
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‘Primera’ Trailer. Vee Bravo Documents Chileans Protesting in the Streets Demanding a New Constitution
Primera directed by Vee Bravo Since October of 2019, millions of Chileans have taken to the streets demanding a new constitution, written by the people and guided by the principles of equity and dignity. Primera tells their story.
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San Sebastian Festival Dedicates Retrospective to the Golden Age of Korean Cinema
Hanyeo / The Housemaid (1960) by Kim Ki-young The upcoming 60th edition of San Sebastian Festival will showcase the retrospective Flowers in Hell, on the Golden Age of Korean Cinema, which had to be cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic. It includes ten titles dating from the 50s and the 60s and will be accompanied by a monographic book published by the Festival, the Filmoteca Española and the Centro Cultural Coreano en España.
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Watch First Clip from Stockholm Syndrome – A$AP Rocky Documentary that World Premiered at Tribeca (Video)
Stockholm Syndrome starring multi-platinum rapper A$AP Rocky Here is the first clip from Stockholm Syndrome, the new documentary on rapper A$AP Rocky which recently world-premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to a sold-out crowd as part the festival’s Juneteenth programming. The documentary covers everything from A$AP Rocky’s music and style, to his experience with the Swedish judicial system.