Berlin International Film Festival 2021 announced the 15 films, two of which are first features, which will compete for the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears. Productions from 16 countries are represented in the Competition.
Film Festivals
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Announces Competition and Berlinale Special Lineup Featuring Tina Turner, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch
“The Mauritanian” starring Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley, Benedict Cumberbatch
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Richmond International Film Festival Postpones 10th Anniversary Edition
The 2021 Richmond International Film Festival (RIFF) in Richmond, Virginia, scheduled for early May has been postponed until September 14-19, 2021. In the announcement, Heather Waters, RIFF Founder & Producer, was optimistic that come September, with the vaccine rollout, the festival will be able to return to the silver screen together in person for the 10th Year Anniversary celebration.
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SXSW Film Festival Announces 2021 Lineup, Closes with Charli XCX’s ‘Alone Together’
Alone Together directed by Bradley Bell, Pablo Jones-Soler SXSW Film Festival announced the full program for the 28th edition of the festival which this year will take place online. The festival will open with Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil with Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free as Centerpiece Film and Alone Together, a documentary on popstar Charli XCX, in quarantine will World Premiere as the Closing Night Film.
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Announces Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino Lineups
Eve Duranceau, G.A. Roy, Maxim Gaudette in Hygiène sociale (Social Hygiene) Berlin International Film Festival 2021 revealed the films selected for Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino programs. In the 2021 Perspektive Deutsches Kino, three documentary and three fiction films take us on journeys to places in Denmark, Nigeria, Canada, the USA, Georgia, Hong Kong and Germany – from the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, to Berlin and Brandenburg, to the Baltic Sea.
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The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival Announces 2021 Lineup of 30 Films
No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival opens its 18th annual edition on May 12th at the Oregon Electric Station in Eugene, Oregon. The five-day event offers film screenings and will also feature expert speakers, a guided tour, TAC Conference on Cultural Heritage Media, a TAC Conference symposium on the search for Amelia Earhart and possibly other symposia, and a Saturday social gathering, and will conclude with an awards reception on May 16th.
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Amanda Seyfried to Receive Montecito Award at Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Amanda Seyfried in “Mank” Amanda Seyfried will receive the Montecito Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival for her career and performance in David Fincher’s Mank from Netflix, for which she recently received Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice nominations.
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Reveals Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded Lineup
Aurielle Akerele in The Inheritance 17 films makes up the 51st Berlinale Forum program and the Forum Expanded film selection consists of four short film selections, one medium-length film and two feature-length films, with a total of 18 films to be shown in March at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. Eight installations will also be shown in June.
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Unveils Short Film Lineup
Diana Neves Silva in Luz de Presença (A Present Light) Berlinale Shorts 2021 program of the Berlin International Film Festival will showcase 20 short films from 16 countries featuring different languages and ranging from fictional formats to experimental films, animations, hybrid and documentary forms
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Berlin Film Festival Reveals 15 Films in Generation 2021 Program
Kristine Kujath Thorp, Nader Khademi in Ninjababy Berlinale revealed the 15 films including seven world premieres and six debuts for the Generation program in the two competitions Kplus and 14plus.
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Berlinale 2021 Retrospective ‘No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell and Carole Lombard’ to Showcase Classic Comedies
Mae West in I’m No Angel | Wesley Ruggles, USA, 1933 Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC For the Retrospective of the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival, the festival will showcase a program of 27 comedies featuring three different American actresses under the title “No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell & Carole Lombard”. The films were chosen with a focus on the strict morality rules of the Motion Picture Production Code, which were increasingly enforced after 1934. Officially adopted in 1930 and dubbed the “Hays Code”, it was a voluntary system by which the Hollywood Studios agreed to uphold moral standards in filmmaking to avoid the censors’ knife. But the Hays Office soon became an even stricter arbiter than the actual censorship office of what could and couldn’t be shown on screen. The code prohibited explicit depictions of sex and promiscuity, as well as the use of profanity. Yet during that period, these three women succeeded in shaping their own film roles, finding their own style, and subtly subverting the Hays Code rules.
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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Award Winners – PEBBLES Wins Tiger Award
Pebbles directed by Vinothraj P.S Southern India-set Pebbles by Vinothraj P.S won the Tiger Award, while I Comete – A Corsican Summer by French filmmaker Pascal Tagnati and Looking for Venera by Norika Sefa from Kosovo both won Special Jury Awards at the expanded 50th anniversary edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The VPRO Big Screen Award went to El perro que no calla by Ana Katz from Argentina and Quo Vadis, Aida? by Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić won the BankGiro Loterij Audience Award.
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Netflix Animated Series CITY OF GHOSTS to Open New York International Children’s Film Festival 2021
Elizabeth Ito’s Netflix animated series “City of Ghosts” Completely virtual for the first time, the 24th edition of New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) will open on March 5th with a premiere event for Elizabeth Ito’s new Netflix animated series City of Ghosts. The animated feature Nahuel and the Magic Book, directed by Germán Acuña, will make its North American premiere on March 6th as the 2021 Opening Spotlight program, and the Festival will conclude with a Closing Spotlight screening of Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon with an exclusive, live conversation with the film’s directors Don Hall and Carlos López-Estrada and appearances by lead voice cast member Kelly Marie Tran.