Salli by Lien Chien Hung won the Feature Film Award – Best International Feature Film at the 23rd RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival. The drama follows a 38-year-old Taiwanese chicken farmer who doesn’t speak English and develops a online romantic relationship with a French man. Despite everyone calling it a romance scam, she wants to prove that love indeed exists.
Sundance Institute will honor Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of Artist Programs at Sundance Institute at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s gala fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance Institute Presented by Google TV.
The Polish film Trains by Maciej J. Drygas won the Award for Best Film and Best Editing in the International Competition at the 37th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The found footage documentary created a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.
Kieran Culkin will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award, Actor at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for his performance in A Real Pain.
Revelation Perth International Film Festival announced the nominees for the 5th annual WA Screen Culture Awards celebrating the local Western Australian film industry.
Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) Harris Dickinson (Babygirl) Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez) Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez) Ariana Grande (Wicked) Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing) Mikey Madison (Anora) and John Magaro (September 5) will be honored at the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival with Virtuosos Award, an honor created to recognize a select group of talent whose noteworthy performances in films this season has propelled them into the forefront of national cinematic conversation.
Berlin Fashion Film Festival announced the winners of this year’12th edition themed “Runway Exodus”. Luxury brands featuring star studded talent Aaron Pierre, Laura Dern, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway and Anya Talylor-Joy walked away with the top award honors.
Evan Oppenheimer’s Peas and Carrots will make its world premiere as the Opening Night feature, and Christina Elioupolos’ Here’s Yianni! is the Closing Night selection of the film lineup for the 3rd New York City edition of Dances With Films (DWF) film festival taking place December 5-8, 2024.
The One That Got Away, City of Hate: Dallas and the Assassination, 60 Years Later, Showdown on the Brazos won top award honors at the 6th Billy the Kid Film Festival in Texas.
https://vimooz.com/category/film-festivals/international-film-festival-rotterdam-iffr/International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the initial details of four Focus programs for IFFR 2025, from highlighting Katja Raganelli’s representations of women’s voices and Sergii Masloboishchykov’s chronicles of Ukraine’s national identity, to marking the the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference and reigniting the communal spirit of VHS practices around the world.
