film festivals

Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani is a name to watch. He made history this year, when he premiered his debut feature Goodbye Julia in Cannes, making it the first-ever Sudanese feature to screen in the festival.

"Who am I? What's going on? I've definitely struggled with those questions throughout my life,” admits Abby Corrigan (Castle Rock; Homeland), in a press conference at the Monte Carlo Television Festival last week in Monaco. She is promoting the new Prime series: Harlan Coben’s Shelter, which is based on “Shelter,” the first novel in the best-selling young adult book trilogy by the writer Harlan Coben, and premiered at the festival.

Emily in Paris which stars Lily Collins as Emily Cooper, an American pursuing a dream job in advertising in Paris, is a confection of an ideal. Critics have castigated it for not being dark, brooding and ‘serious.

Hollywood may be the movie capital of the world, but Monte-Carlo is its glamor capital. On a perfect June evening, as the setting sun bathed the red carpet in a golden glow, Honorary President of the Festival, H.

Jacqueline Lentzou’s Moon, 66 Questions won the New Visions Award and the Golden Puffin at the Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF), which closed its 18th edition on October 10th. The Golden Puffin is the main prize at RIFF, given to the “Discovery of the Year”, as selected by an international jury.

The Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) prides itself on being a low-key and unpretentious film festival without VIP treatments and long red carpets. The festival, which lasts 11 days and this year was from September 30 until October 10, is young and hip.

It lasted eight days and was really intense. Almost 10,000 visitors descended into the small and beautiful health resort located two hours away from Prague to watch over 140 films, including 29 features that had their world premiere there.

Every year, Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) presents a program of classic movies in addition to a slew of new ones, and this year it treated festivalgoers to a beach screening of A Fistful of Dollars, in a new copy restored thanks to a grant by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA. )The screening was attended by over 450 cinema lovers, who cheered enthusiastically upon hearing about the HFPA’s contribution to restoring 84 classics.