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The winners of the Short Film and Short Script Competitions at the 3rd Koker International Short Film Festival have been revealed. The festival’s top honor, the Golden Cherry Award, was presented to the Chinese film No One Knows I Disappeared. The 3rd Koker International Short Film Festival concluded with its awards ceremony. Formerly known as the Abbas Kiarostami Short Film Festival, the event took place from July 1 to 3, 2026, at Klick Kino in Berlin, Germany. This year’s Short Film Competition received 486 submissions from 53 countries, with 21 films selected for the International Competition. The international jury was…

Cinema Without Borders has announced its jury members to decide on the winner of 2026  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 A jury of five, formed by CWB will decide on the winning films at the closing night of the festival. LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers is Germany’s oldest festival for young audiences. In 2026, the festival celebrates its 49th edition from September 24th to October 1st. Within the competition sections in the age…

Hamed Soleimanzadeh, an active and influential film critic, filmmaker, and university lecturer in Germany and Italy, holds a postdoctoral degree in Film and Philosophy from the Berlin University of the Arts. To date, Soleimanzadeh has served as a juror at more than fifty prestigious international film festivals, including the Golden Globes, Cannes, the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. He is recognized as one of the most respected Iranian cultural and artistic figures working internationally. He has also directed several short films and published several books, along with hundreds of articles on cinema, philosophy,…

Cinema Without Borders is proud to announce that the 2026 Honorary Bridging the Borders Award will be presented to Ali Murat Erkorkmaz in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to the world of animation and digital storytelling. https://vimeo.com/1197744296?fl=tl&fe=ec For more than three decades, Ali Murat Erkorkmaz has been a pioneering force in computer animation, consistently pushing the boundaries of what is possible through technological innovation and artistic vision. As an animator, director, writer, composer, and inventor, he has devoted his career to developing groundbreaking tools and techniques that have transformed the animation landscape. Among his most significant achievements has been his…

The 21st annual South East European Film Festival #SEEfest, co-presented by ELMA foundation for European Languages and Movies in America, is bringing to Los Angeles, U.S. premieres, European talent, and Industry panels and workshops from April 29 – May 6. The festival will showcase feature, documentary, and short films from the culturally rich area of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Opening the festival on April 29th at the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills (8556 Wilshire Blvd) will be the Los Angeles premiere of Ioana Mischie’s feature debut, “CATANE.” This Romanian comedy-romance is set in a village that Mischie’s playful approach…

Time Hoppers: The Silk Road is a family-oriented animated feature that blends time-travel adventure with historical storytelling. Designed primarily for children ages 6–9, the film centers on four gifted students—Abdullah, Aysha, Khalid, and Layla—who attend Aqli Academy in the year 2050. What begins as an experiment soon becomes a high-stakes journey through history when the children discover they can travel back in time. Transported to the ancient Silk Road, the young protagonists find themselves confronting Fasid, a rogue alchemist determined to alter the course of history by erasing the legacies of influential scientists. As the story unfolds, the children move…

Sinners leads the 2026 Oscar nominations with a record-breaking 16 noms, including best picture, best director and best original screenplay. One Battle After Another also is a top nominee, with 13, followed by Frankenstein, Marty Supreme and Sentimental Value with nine apiece. All five of those films are up for best picture, along with Bugonia, F1, Hamnet, The Secret Agent and Train Dreams. Among the studios, Warner Bros. landed the most noms with 30 (including those for Sinners and One Battle After Another), followed by Neon with 18 (including The Secret Agent and Sentimental Value) and Netflix with 16 (including Frankenstein and Train Dreams). Among the snubs were Wicked: For Good, which was completely shut out, while Delroy Lindo and Kate Hudson scored surprise noms. (Read Scott Feinberg’s…

“One Battle After Another,” a blistering satire about radical politics, and “Hamnet,” a look at William Shakespeare’s complicated domestic life, took top prizes at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards. “The Studio,” a send-up of Hollywood, was named best TV series (musical or comedy) and “The Pitt,” which takes place in an over-stretched hospital, won best TV series (drama). Best limited or anthology series went to “Adolescence,” the story of a murder investigation that unfolds in one, continuous shot. The Globes, unlike the Oscars, delineates films by genre. That meant “One Battle After Another” won best picture (musical or comedy), while…

Awards season is in full swing, and the nominations for the 83rd Annual Golden Globes are here. Actors Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall presented the nominations across 28 categories this morning, with one new category this year: Best Podcast. Most categories will include six nominees, while the cinematic and box office achievement category will feature eight. In the TV categories, The White Lotus leads with six nominations, followed by Netflix’s harrowing mini-series Adolescence with five. The Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building and Apple TV’s Severance, which dominated the Emmy nominations last year, earned four each. The action thriller One Battle After Another starring Leonardo DiCaprio lead the film race…

Reports by Nargess SamadiThe good news is that Ms. Nargess Samadi, Festival Reporter and Reviwer of Cinema Without Borders, will cover 2026 Sundance and Berlin International Film Festival — Sundance International Film Festival will be held at Park City, Salt Lake City from January 22nd to February 1st. Berlin Film Festival will take place  from February 12 to March 3 — with Nargess Samadi’s daily reports. The Berlin festival professional and industry activities, European Film Market / EFM (Feb. 12–18, 2026 – with the kickoff on the afternoon of February 11), the Berlinale Co-Production Market(Feb. 14-17, 2026), Berlinale Talents (Feb.…