
Zack Gottsagen will receive the Rising Star Award at the annual Film Awards Gala of the 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) for his performance in The Peanut Butter Falcon. The festival runs January 2-13, 2020.

Zack Gottsagen will receive the Rising Star Award at the annual Film Awards Gala of the 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) for his performance in The Peanut Butter Falcon. The festival runs January 2-13, 2020.

21 short films are selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) with the jury consisting of Nathanja van Dijk, Safia Benhaim and Greg de Cuir Jr.

Berlin International Film Festival will honor Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren with its Homage and award her the Honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement.

The Palm Springs International Film Festival will present Antonio Banderas with the International Star Award, Actor for his performance in Pain and Glory at its annual Film Awards Gala. The 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) runs January 2-13, 2020.

Ashland Independent Film Festival will open the AIFF Film Center, the newest addition to Ashland’s vibrant visual and literary arts scene on East Main Street.

For Sama directed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts has won the VPRO IDFA Audience Award the grand public prize of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

exground filmfest 32 concluded its ten-day celebration of independent cinema with a gala awards ceremony. As best feature-length film, the audience chose PAPICHA by Mounia Meddour. Audience members selected PINKY PROMISE by Sophie Linnenbaum (who placed 2nd in 2018 with RIEN NE VA PLUS) as the winner in the German Short Film Competition. Second prize went to EARLY BIRDS by Benjamin Kempf-Siemens and Rainer Binz, and Felix Karolus was honoured with third prize for his film MENUETT.

CUFF.Docs, the 7th Annual Documentary Film Festival presented by Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF), starts this Wednesday night, November 27, with the Sundance hit THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN DOCUMENTARY, about the final tour of a dying magician, “The Amazing Johnathan”, which turns into an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion. The 5-day festival runs until Sunday, Dec 1 at Globe Cinema.

Directors Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez Fernández are the winners of the 2019 International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary with In a Whisper. The film centers on two emigrated Cuban filmmakers whose passion for film, friendship, and freedom reunites them after years apart.

Krakow Film Festival, announced the first titles of the next year’s 60th anniversary program including “Sunless Shadows” by Mehrdad Oskouei, the opening film of the IDFA festival in Amsterdam and the documentary film “My Father and Me” by British film-maker, Nick Broomfield.