The Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland has unveiled an eclectic lineup for its 77th edition, taking place Aug. 7-17. The fest will screen 225 total films, including 104 world premieres, five international premieres and some debut features, including new films from such directors as Hong Sang-soo, Spanish actress Paz Vega and Radu Jude. Gianluca Jodice’s Le …
Ron Howard’s survival thriller Eden is set for a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September, organizers said on Tuesday. Eden stars Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas and Daniel Brühl and is based on real-life events and hails from Tetris scribe Noah Pink. The movie will play as a gala at …
Munich welcomed Kate Winslet like she was the queen of the world on Tuesday night when the Oscar-winning actress received a lifetime achievement award at the Munich International Film Festival. The crowd at Munich’s Deutsches Theater whooped and hollered as Winslet took to the stage to accept her award, and to introduce the European premiere …
Cate Blanchett will be honored at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival with a Tribute Award, while also participating in an In Conversation With… event. The Oscar winner will receive the TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award in Toronto on Sept. 8. Blanchett most recently starred in Canadian director Guy Maddin’s Rumors, which bowed at the Cannes Film …
Say his name. The 81st Venice International Film Festival will kick off this year with the world premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton‘s hotly-anticipated sequel to his 1988 comedy-horror hit. The film will have its world premiere in Venice on August 28, screening out of competition. Beetlejuice alums Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara …
Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be honored with the lifetime achievement award, the Pardo alla Carriera, or career leopard, at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival. The Panthaan, Don 2 and Om Shanti Om star, known to his fans as “King Khan,” will receive the prize at Locarno’s iconic Piazza Grande on Aug. 10. As …
Benicio del Toro has had enough of schmoozing, small talk and pretending to laugh at people’s jokes in this year’s black-and-white trailer for the 2024 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), which was unveiled, as has become tradition, on Friday evening as part of the opening night festivities of the 58th edition of the fest in …
The 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), which kicks off in the Czech spa town on Friday, promises a balanced diet of world premieres and other movies to discover, as well as hits and favorites from the recent festival circuit. Central Europe’s biggest cinema fest and party once again dishes up …
Czech actor Ivan Trojan doesn’t need much introduction in his home country. But organizers of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) helped foreigners who may not have immediately recognized his name when recently unveiling that the star would receive the President’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Czech Cinema at the closing ceremony of this …
Indian cinema triumphs at the 23rd Transylvania International Film Festival, which took place June 14-24 in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca. First-time director Shuchi Talati won the Transylvania Trophy, the top prize of the International competition, along with its $11,7000 (€10,000) bursary for her feature Girls Will Be Girls, a mother-daughter drama that premiered at …