The opening/award ceremony of 2024 Hungarian Film Festival of Los Angeles was held on November 1st, 2024 CWB’s Bridging The Borders Award, Sponserd by 360 MEDIA, for the Best Feature Film went to ANYONE CAN DIE, directed by Andras Surany & Ildiko Gaal. In ANYONE CAN DIE, the Writer (Róbert Koltai) knows more about the world, women, and the essence of relationships than all of us put together. He doesn’t want to die without passing on this secret. So he’s looking for someone to whom he can pass on the “essence of being a bluebeard”. And he finds it, in…
Author: Bijan Tehrani
Bijan Tehrani
Bijan (Hassan) Tehrani Founder and Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders, is a film director, writer, and a film critic, his first article appeared in a weekly film publication in Iran 45 years ago. Bijan founded Cinema Without Borders, an online publication dedicated to promotion of international cinema in the US and around the globe, eighteen years ago and still works as its editor in chief. Bijan is has also been a columnist and film critic for the Iranian monthly film related medias for 45 years and during the past 5 years he has been a permanent columnist and film reviewer for Film Emrooz (Film Today), a popular Iranian monthly print film magazine. Bijan has won several awards in international film festivals and book fairs for his short films and children's books as well as for his services to the international cinema. Bijan is a member of Iranian Film Writers Critics Society and International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). He is also an 82nd Golden Globe Awards voter.
Julie Keeps Quiet (Dutch: Julie zwijgt) is a 2024 psychological drama film, directed by Leonardo Van Dijl (in his directorial debut) and written by Van Dijl and Ruth Becquart. It stars Tessa Van den Broeck, Ruth Becquart, Koen De Bouw, Claire Bodson and Laurent Caron. It had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Critics’ Week section on 18 May 2024, where it won the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution and SACD Award. The film was chosen as the Belgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. https://vimeo.com/1024981569 At an elite tennis academy, star player, Julie’s tennis coach falls under investigation and is suspended, all of the team…
Five years in the making, BORDERLAND | The Line Within, from Award-Winning Director Pamela Yates, exposes the war waged on immigrants daily in the United States through a massive system of surveillance and a militarized border industrial complex. This well documented large scale human rights crisis is setting the stage for an entire class of people to live in fear of a carceral system that treats them as criminals. But the film’s protagonists, all immigrants themselves, are quietly building strength, their leadership emerging in the shadow of this border-industrial complex. https://vimeo.com/1014505218 The film begins south of the U.S. border, following…
Formerly known as the International Kids Film Festival (IKFF), over 8 million students from more than 30,000 schools, participated in the film festival LXL Foundation presented the 7th edition of the School Cinema International Film Festival (SCIFF). In Delhi, SCIFF was screened at almost 3000 schools and saw participation from more than 10 lakh students. Formerly known as the International Kids Film Festival (IKFF), over 8 million students from more than 30,000 schools, which includes 25,000+ government schools participated in the PAN India film festival, mentioned the press release. This year’s event brought together 80+ films in 15+ languages from…
The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere. It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. BORDERLAND | The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all. To learn more about BORDERLAND | The Line Within, we had…
Cinema Without Borders has announced its jury members to decide on the winner of 2024 Bridging The Borders Award at the LUCAS International Festival for Young Film Lover in Germany. LUCAS programmers have also announced the nominees for the Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging The Borders Award sponsored by 360 Media. A jury of six, formed by CWB will decide on the winning films at the closing night of the festival. Keely Badger, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of 360 MEDIAn Consulting , the sponsor of the Bridging The Borders Award, will announce the winning film in a video message that will be…
After my review of the wonderful movie , Io Capitano, I was offered the opportunity to Interview Italian film composer Andrea Farri, who did the beautiful score for the film. I thought the music was an extremely important element of the powerful film. As one of Italy’s most in-demand young composers with a distinctive approach to scoring. Traveling as a young child, his experiences on the road inspired him to start playing and writing music when he was only 9 years old, and soon after, he began composing for theatre and dance companies when he was just 17. Some of his past credits include Romulus (2022), The Hanging…
Burbank, CA – June 23rd, 2024: Today, Cinema Without Borders Foundation announced the winnwers of CWB’s Bridging The Borders Award for the 2024 Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival. The Bridging The Borders Award at the 2024 Palm ShortFest will be given to the most successful film in bringing the people of our world closer together. Bridging The Borders Award is presented by Cinema Without Borders Foundation and award sponsored and prize provided by 360 MEDIA. The winner of Bridging the Borders Award will receive a cash prize of $2000 At the Shortfest Award ceremony Keely Badger and Vladek Juszkiewicz,…
On Saturday May 18th 2024, East Los Angeles College, Cinema and Without Borders Foundation in cooperation with the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles, L’Agence du court métrage, Villa Albertine Los Angeles and Sony Classic Pictures will celebrate the ninth edition of the annual ELAC International Animation Day Festival, dedicated to French Animation. This event will be held at East Los Angeles College, located at 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park, CA 91754. Screenings will be held at the Building S1 Screening Room 112. Free parking will be available in Structure 4. On the corner of W Floral Drive…
Cinema Without Borders is proud to present Bridging The Borders Award for the 16 year at the prestigious SEEfest, South East European Film Festival LA. Bridging The Borders Award offered by Cinema Without Borders goes to a feature film that helps bringing people of our world closer together. Winner will be announced on May 8th during the closing ceremony of the 19th Edition of the festival at the Fine Arts theater. SEEfest will run from May 1th to May 8th. Jury members for MOZAIK Bridging the Borders Award are: KEELY BADGER Keely Badger is the Founder and Chief Marketing Officer…