European Film Academy has unveiled the nominees of the main categories of the 35th European Film Awards. / IMAGE: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS dir. Ruben Östlund (Sweden/France/UK/Turkey/Germany), 2022 HIFF alum Ruben Östlund (FORCE MAJEURE, THE SQUARE) strikes again with this shocking comedic satire of modern extravagance in the era of Insta-fame. A young model Carl (Harris Dickinson) and his girlfriend Yaya (Charlbi Dean) are invited to join the wealthy elite aboard a luxury cruise helmed by a slightly crazed captain (Woody Harrelson). What promises to be a lavish voyage soon derails into a disaster of epic proportion. Artfully told, this wild romp won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and delivers a riotous (and at times hard to stomach) commentary on the superficial glitz and glamor of high society. A Neon release.
The winners of IDFA’s 35th edition competition programs were announced at the Awards Ceremony taking place at ITA Amsterdam. / Photo and Copyright Roger Cremers 2022 / Courtesy of IDFA
The film awards for the 64th Nordische Filmtage Lübeck were handed out this evening at the gala Prize Night at Theater Lübeck. / The winners of the awards of the 64th Nordische Filmtage Lübeck. photo: Olaf Malzahn, Courtesy of Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
Film Independent has announced the nominations for the film categories at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards. / 2023 FILM INDEPENDENT Spirit Awards
Driving Mum, Director: Hilmar Oddsson, Producer: Hlín Jóhannesdóttir, Iceland, 2022 / Photo: Courtesy of PÖFF / The jury of the Official Selection Competition, headed by Ildikó Enyedi, selected director Hilmar Oddsson’s dark comedy Driving Mum as their favourite, handing the film the Grand Prix of the festival.
winners of the 38th edition of the Interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival and the 15th edition of the KUKI Young Short Film Festival Berlin were announced during the closing ceremony in the grand cinema of the historic Colosseum on Schönhauser Allee. Prizes worth € 44,000 were conferred.
“Neighbour Abdi” (“Buurman Abdi”) by Douwe Dijkstra / How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbor and filmmaker Douwe. By means of playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, Abdi and Douwe embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout. / Courtesy of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
“The Pink Lagoon,”directed by Juan Arce and Francisco Gallo, Winner of Best of Fest Audience Choice Award for Best Film / Two distant siblings, two different worlds. A journey of familial reconnection, positivity, and valuing the different ways of seeing the world. Mariana is a fiercely independent, twentysomething young woman with Down’s syndrome who loves ballet, art, and living her best life. When invited to participate in a publicly funded dance exhibition in another city, she visits uptight, estranged brother Arturo with her free-spirited ballet teacher in tow to ask for some assistance getting there. Initially put out and resistant to doing anything much to help that would distract him from his own life and high-strung fiancee, he can’t help but to be swept up by his sister’s profound dignity, sincerity for the world in general, and true passion for dance. The cadence and sweet rhythms of the storytelling and the magnificent performance of lead actress Monica Arce as Mariana will make viewers of this film moved and quite happy to have had the experience. / Courtesy of Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival
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Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, will accept the newly introduced European Sustainability Award – Prix Film4Climate 2022 on behalf of the European Commission during the 35th European Film Awards on 10 December in Reykjavík.
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL sparkles on the big screen this festive season with an exclusive addition of long lost song 'When Love Is Gone' to mark its 30th anniversary.
Ali Abbasi's HOLY SPIDER, Denmark's official submission for International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards, and Cannes winner for Best Actress will be released in theatres in Vancouver on December 9th, 2022.
Harry Brandrick's BAFTA-qualified short film THE OUT stars BAFTA winner Allan Mustafa as a recovering heroin addict who is trying to get his life back together.
Awards of the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: At the Award Ceremony of the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), awards were presented to the winners of the festival's five competition programmes and PÖFF's youth and children's film sub-festival Just Film.
