Vancouver Web Fest Announces Official Selections for Third Annual Festival

Festival attendees will have the chance to pitch representatives from New Form Digital, CBC Comedy, and Just For Laughs TV.

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AFI FEST 2016 Award Winners: The Complete List

Houda Benyamina's "Divines" emerged as this year's biggest festival winner.

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Election Season Panic: How Film Festival Films Are Reflecting Fear of Trump’s America

New American indies are illustrating the widespread panic of this year's election season — not only in the U.S. but abroad, as a recent festival in Poland proved.

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‘The Shining’ Hotel Will Host a New Horror Film Festival, Picking Up Where The Stanley Left Off

The festival in Mt. Hood, Oregon finds the programming team behind an earlier horror-themed event reuniting with some of the key figures in modern genre filmmaking in 2017.

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NewFest And Beyond: Why LGBT Film Festivals Are Essential to the Future of Gay Movies

"It really does make or break careers," head programmer Lucy Mukerjee-Brown told IndieWire.

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Los Angeles Film Festival Faces New Era As Director Stephanie Allain Moves On

But will Allain's departure also bring a change in direction?

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David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption Draws Us Inside the Filmmaker’s Head

The unconventional convention celebrating music, art and film was curated by the director of "Twin Peaks," but took attendees beyond that.

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Hamptons International Film Festival Announces Spotlight Films, World Cinema and Shorts Programs

The 24th edition will take place October 6 – 10, Columbus Day Weekend.

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Doug Liman to Reveal Exclusive Look at New VR Series ‘Invisible’ — Watch

Watch Doug Liman discuss his new supernatural VR series live at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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How (And Why) A TIFF Premiere Put A Character’s Life In the Audience’s Hands

TIFF: Kenya’s experimental digital series "Tuko Macho" asks audience to become judge, jury and executioner — live.

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Beyond the Buzz: Why TIFF’s Hidden Gems Resonate Loudest With Film Buffs

The selection is overwhelming at the Toronto International Film Festival, but more people are seeing fewer movies.

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‘Manchester By The Sea’ Leads The Buzz, And Other Telluride Film Festival Standouts

Other talking points include "Moonlight," "Into The Inferno," and the Oscar campaigns (plural) for Isabelle Huppert.

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Michael Moore’s 12-Year Project: How His Film Festival Saved a City

Michael Moore has turned a sleepy resort town into a cultural oasis for sophisticated cinema.

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New York Film Festival Announces James Gray’s ‘The Lost City of Z’ As Closing Night Selection

The highly anticipated film will have its world premiere at the fall festival.

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Meet the Locarno Critics Academy Class of 2016

Here are the 10 aspiring journalists participating in IndieWire's workshop in Switzerland this year.

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TIFF Adds New Round of Titles, Including ‘It’s Only the End of the World,’ ‘Mean Dreams’ and More

The festival has also announced a slew of Canadian shorts and four new "Rising Stars."

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Locarno Film Festival 2016: ‘The Girl With All the Gifts’ and 4 More Must-See Films

The latest films from João Pedro Rodrigues and Matias Piñero are among the potential highlights of this year's Swiss gathering.

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Venice Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Voyage of Time,’ ‘The Bad Batch,’ ‘Jackie’ and ‘Nocturnal Animals’

The annual festival unveils a packed slate of fall premieres.

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New York Film Festival Announces Mike Mills’ ’20th Century Women’ As Centerpiece Selection

The film will have its world premiere at the fall festival.

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TIFF Lineup: 5 Reasons to Get Excited About the 2016 Program

Setting aside awards season buzz, here are some of the titles from this year's massive fall film festival that should be on your radar.

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TIFF Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’

The festival's Galas and Special Presentations sections already boast a number of festival favorites and early awards contenders.

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Review: ‘The Lure’ Is The Best Goth Musical About Man-Eating Mermaids Ever Made

Agnieszka Smoczyńska's demented debut feature is part Hans Christian Andersen, part Nine Inch Nials.

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Film Festival Roundup: BFI London To Open With ‘Queen Of Katwe,’ Michael Fassbender Honored By TIFF And More

Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column.

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James Franco On How A Prosthetic Penis Brought Him Closer to the LGBTQ Community

After the Hollywood star received Outfest's first James Schamus Ally Award, the trophy's namesake also shared some choice anecdotes.

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Cyberpunk Classics and Kinky Sex Fables: 5 Must-See Japanese Films At Japan Cuts 2016

North America's biggest Japanese film festival is about to have one of its best years ever.

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Outfest’s 2016 Screenwriting Lab Fellows Share Their Transformative and Affirmative Experience

The program offered five writers the opportunity to hone their writing and to foster close-knit friendships.

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2016 Locarno Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

The festival will also honor Bill Pullman, composer Howard Shore, Roger Corman and several others.

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Charlie Kaufman Reflects On His Career: ‘I Feel Like I F*cking Blew It’

"The only reason to speculate about the reasons for bad box office is to decide that you don’t want to do something that you believe in next time in order to make more money. And that’s not a choice I’m willing to make."

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‘The Teacher’ Review: A Communist Satire That’s More Fun Than It Sounds

The latest film from "Divided We Fall" director Jan Hřebejk tackles Czech history in a way that the whole world should watch.

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Outfest 2016 Opens With A Heavy Heart And A Message of Hope

The LA LGBT film festival used its opening night celebration as a time for reflection, recognition and optimism.

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Willem Dafoe Is Fighting For The Future Of Cinema

"The other day Paul Schrader said to me 'You know what your problem is? You actually like doing this.'"

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Karlovy Vary Review: ‘We’re Still Together’ Is A Smart And Sensitive Micro-Budget Drama

Jesse Klein's second feature is the only English-language movie in competition at this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, but it would stand out regardless.

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Film Festival Roundup: Fantasia Announces Full Lineup, Rooftop Films Partners With IDFA And More

Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column.

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Outfest 2016: 5 Great Films We’ve Seen (That You Should See Too)

The movies playing at LA's biggest LGBT film festival that you should make time for.

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Karlovy Vary Review: ‘By The Rails’ Is A Romanian Relationship Drama That Hits A Dead End

Cătălin Mitulescu’s third feature is an 88-minute two-hander that feels like it goes on for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days.

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Karlovy Vary Review: ‘Kills On Wheels’ Is ‘The Professional’ Meets ‘Murderball’

Atilla Till's charmingly violent new film, already a hit at the Hungarian box office, is a very different kind of empowerment story.

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Karlovy Vary Review: ‘Anthropoid’ Muddles An Incredible World War II Story

A Czech version of "Valkyrie" led by a stodgy team of British actors, Sean Ellis' thriller doesn't earn its incredible climactic shootout.

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Film Festival Roundup: Nantucket and AFI Docs Announce Winners, PBS Online Film Festival Picks Lineup and More

Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column.

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2016 Palm Springs ShortFest Announces Awards Winners

The largest short film festival in North America celebrates the small moments from across the world.

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SeriesFest 2016 Winners Include Fan Fiction and Irish Crime

Independent pilots "Truth Slash Fiction" and "Farr" take home the big prizes at the Denver-set TV festival. 

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‘The Neon Demon’: Nicolas Winding Refn Reveals Why His Vampire Model Movie Is Autobiographical

The Danish director likes to work from a place of fear and instinct, he says, and he's not afraid to stir up controversy, as he proved yet again at Cannes.

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5 Must-See Films At The 2016 New York Asian Film Festival

One of the summer's most vital offerings, NYAFF is a celebration of the best and most bonkers in classic and contemporary Asian cinema.

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Why Critics Still Matter and 4 Other Insights From SIFF’s ‘Can Critics Save the Movies?’ Panel

Critic panelists assembled at the Seattle International Film Festival to discuss the state of cinema journalism.

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Cannes Film Festival Awards 2016

As we mounted the stairs of the Red Carpet for the last time, the Closing Night Awards for the Cannes International Film Festival were announced by the Jury President, George Miller, Director of “Mad Max: Fury Road”.  The eight additional members, four women and four men -- Arnaud Desplechin, Kirsten Dunst, Valeria Golino, Mads Mikkelsen, László Nemes , Vanessa Paradis, Katayoon Shahabi and Donald Sutherland presented the awards. Surprise of the evening was that the German Competition film, Maren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann”, clearly an audience favorite and snatched up immediately for the U.S. by Sony Pictures Classics, received no award at all.  However, it was...

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Cannes Today: New Talent Emerges

Halfway through the Cannes Film Festival, buzz is hearing about “Jackie”, now in post-production, an account of the days of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, directed by Pablo Larraín whose Directors’ Fortnight contender “Neruda” is receiving raves here.  Another hot Directors’ Fortnight film “Mean Dreams” with Bill Paxton is praised by one important film buyer as “Mud” meets “Cold in July” in a tense coming-of-age drama about a 15-year-old boy.  And Sony Pictures Classics has snatched U.S. rights to the German Competition comedy, “Toni Erdmann”. This year in the Cannes Film Festival’s Official...

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