The Official Selections were revealed for the 66th Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival), taking place May 15 – 26, 2013. The Festival also announced that Thomas Vinterberg, Danish director, scriptwriter and producer, will be this year’s President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard, Festival de Cannes Official Selection; and The Bling Ring by Sofia Coppola, with Emma Watson in the title role, Taïssa Farmiga, Leslie Mann and Kirsten Dunst, will open Un Certain Regard on Thursday 16 May.
The 13th Annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) announced the lineup for their “100 Years of Indian Cinema” series to mark the global celebration of 100 years of Indian Cinema – since filmmaker D.G Phalke released his first feature film RAJA HARISHCHANDRA on May 3, 1913.
The lineup includes three rarely seen masterpieces from different time periods, as well as two world-premiere documentaries that explore different facets of Indian filmmaking.
NYIFF runs from April 30 – May 4 across New York City. NYIFF’s “100 Years” series will screen exclusively at Tribeca Cinemas. The following are the films featured in the 2013 New York Indian Film Festival “100 Years” series:
The 11th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) wrapped on Sunday evening (April 14) with a red carpet and gala fete that included the Los Angeles premiere of Deepa Mehta’s MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, and the presentation of the festival’s Grand Jury and Audience Choice Awards.
Ashim Ahluwalia’s MISS LOVELY took home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature, with an honorable mention for SHIP OF THESEUS directed by Anand Gandhi. The Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary went to Sushrut Jain for BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES, and for Best Short to UNRAVEL directed by Meghna Gupta, with an honorable mention for TATPASCHAT directed by Vasudev Keluskar.
The Toronto International Deaf Film & Arts Festival (TIDFAF) will take over the the prestigious Randolph Theatre Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts, for the 4th biannual international film & arts festival May 9 -12, 2013.
Three popular titles that premiered in the African Diaspora International Film Festival will have a run at the newly opened three screen movie theatre, MIST CINEMA in Harlem. The 3 films – Youssou N’Dour: Return to Goré, The Story of Lovers Rock and Filling The Gap will screen from April 19 to April 25, 2013.
Nine films will compete in 2013 for the Short Film Palme d’or, at the 66th Festival de Cannes. For the first time, a Palestinian film will take part in the Short Films Competition.
In the Cinéfondation Selection, 18 films (14 fiction films and 4 animated films) were selected from 277 film schools from all around the world. The Cinéfondation Selection features films from film students from a diversity of film schools, with a third of the schools being selected for the first time and one country – Chile – which has never previously been selected.
The 10th International Festival of Documentary Cinema DOCUMENTA MADRID unveiled the first titles of the Official Selections for 2013, and will open May 5, 2013. with the controversial Oscar nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers”, featuring the Shin Bet, the Israeli domestic secret service agency. Directed by Dror Moreh, the film shows for the first time the inside operations of the agency, through the testimonies of six of its former directors.
Maryland Film Festival taking place May 8-12, 2013, in downtown Baltimore added twelve more films to their 2013 film lineup, bringing the total number of feature films revealed so far to 36.
The films announced today includes work from Finland, Mexico, Austria, and Israel, and such titles as Zach Clark’s holiday-themed, darkly comic White Reindeer;Alex Winter’s riveting look at the rise and fall of Napster, Downloaded; Jessica Oreck’s experiential documentary about a family of reindeer herders, Aatsinki; and Calvin Reeder’s surreal, horror-tinged mindbender about a mysterious loner, The Rambler.
Today’s announced features for Maryland Film Festival 2013 are:
The documentary ‘Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay’, directed by Molly Bernstein and Alan Edelstein, and an official selection of the 2012 New York Film Festival, opens in NYC at Film Forum on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 and at the Nuart in Los Angeles on May 17, 2013.
Rooftop Films is back for the 17th Annual Summer Series, with this year’s edition kicking off on Friday, May 10th with a screening of what the festival describes as “some of the greatest new short films from all around the world”. On Saturday, May 11th, Rooftop will present a special sneak preview screening of “Frances Ha,” directed by Noah Baumbach and starring Greta Gerwig,
Some highlights from this year’s Summer Series include New York premieres, sneak previews, and more:
I’M SO EXCITED!, written and directed by famed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar opens in the US on June 28, 2013 two weeks after premiering at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival.
by Morgan Davies
The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in downtown Manhattan this week, and while movies with big stars like The English Teacher (with Julianne Moore and Nathan Lane) and Almost Christmas (with Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd) may get most of the attention from the press, many of the festival’s best films are likely to be less-seen documentaries. Here are five to look out for.