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Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the films selected to screen in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival out-of-competition sections Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, NEXT <=> and New Frontier. The Festival takes place from January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival.Trevor Groth, Director of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival, said, “In many ways, the extremes of the Festival’s program are most readily apparent in our out-of-competition sections, which showcase the wildest comedies, the most terrifying horror films and uncompromised visions from…

New York, NY – The winners of the 2nd annual edition of the Cinema Tropical AWARDS presented by Cinelatino and Dish LATINO, were unveiled this evening at a special event at The New York Times’ 15th Floor Conference Center. Peruvian film Octubre / October by Daniel and Diego Vega was the winner of the award for Best Feature Film of the Year, whilst Chilean film Nostalgia de la luz / Nostalgia for the Light by Patricio Guzmán was named Best Documentary Film. Mexican film El lugar más pequeño / The Tiniest Place by Tatiana Huezo won two awards for Best…

The Hindu: “Arab Cinema,” a package comprising eight films reflecting the present popular uprisings for democracy in the Arab world, will be one of the highlights of the 16th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) which will commence in the city on December 9.Widely acclaimed Egyptian film Tahrir 2011: The Good The Bad and The Politician, a joint venture of directors Aten Amin, Tamer Ezzat, and Amr Salama, is among the films included in this section. The movie, which has been divided into three sections, portrays the surge and suppression of popular revolt under the regime of former president and…

New York – Women Make Movies (WMM), the distributor of films by women and about women, announces that HBO will air the broadcast premiere of the award-winning PINK SARIS, the new film by internationally acclaimed and Sundance award winning director, Kim Longinotto. The film will air on HBO2 on Wednesday, November 30, at 8 pm EST. “A girl’s life is cruel…A woman’s life is very cruel,” notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto’s latest foray into the lives of extraordinary women. Sampat should know – like many others she was…

Featuring PIERRE ÉTAIX in person and screenings of LE GRAND AMOUR and his Oscar-winning short HEUREUX ANNIVERSAIRE. Hosted by Leonard MaltinThe delightful films of Pierre Étaix, a classic French comedian influenced by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, have been largely unseen for over 20 years.Copyright entanglements have long kept Pierre Étaix’s work out of the public eye. Happily, these films have recently been restored and re-released in France. Now, following his stateside appearance at the 2011 Telluride Film Festival, the Academy welcomes Étaix to Los Angeles. After a conversation with the comedian, newly restored prints of his Oscar-winning short “Heureux…

The annual celebration of Italian cinema, Cinema Italian Style, will open this year with Italy’s official Oscar submission for Best Foreign-Language Film, Emanuele Crialese’s topical drama TERRAFERMA. Following is an array of Italy’s best films, with an emphasis on the country’s strong year for comedies: Nanni Moretti’s papal crowdpleaser WE HAVE A POPE, starring Michel Piccoli as an insecure cardinal; Paulo Genovese’s THE IMMATURE, an ensemble comedy about a long-overdue reunion of a group of former best friends; Gianni Di Gregorio’s THE SALT OF LIFE, in which an aging married man dabbles in the possibility of being a cradle robber;…

Over the past two decades, Belgian cinema, be it from Flanders or from the French speaking part of the country, has risen to prominence in the international filmmaking arena, boasting richly diverse films that consistently garner critical praise and worldwide anticipation. From the unsettling but still urgently relevant MAN BITES DOG which rocked the Cannes Film Festival in 1992 and the quirky and vibrant tale of identity mix-up in TOTO THE HERO, to the monumental saga of DAENS or the Oscar nominated EVERYBODY FAMOUS, the outstanding thrillers MEMORY OF A KILLER and DOSSIER K, and the string of critically-lauded dramatic…

ArcLight Cinemas is kicking off the first ArcLight Cinemas’ Documentary Film Festival, which offers talented, independent filmmakers a chance to share their work with fellow film-enthusiasts. The winning documentary producer will receive $10,000.In a film festival first, fans were asked to vote on trailers on the ArcLight Cinemas YouTube page. The top ten “most liked” trailers would be admitted into the film festival. The festival received over 150 entries that drew more than 100,000 views and more than 30,000 votes.The documentaries range in content and style as they take a deep look into the world of YouTube, the beginnings of…

New York, NY –Tickets are now on sale for the 5th Annual Other Israel Film Festival, which today announced its full program schedule. Taking place in New York City from November 10th – November 17th, the Other Israel Film Festival will present award-winning films and NY premieres by and about Arab citizens of Israel, as well as other minority populations in Israeli society. The festival goes beyond the films like no other major festival, with in-depth high profile conversations in the SpeakEasy Cafe. With the impending UN vote for a Palestinian state, this fall promises to place the Palestinian population…

MEDIAS, Romania — With Europe slouching toward its own version of The Great Recession and economists divining the death of the euro, you wouldn’t think heading to Romania to check out another first-time film festival would be in sync with the global gestalt. Who has the resources to cover such small fry anymore? And why should anyone care about yet another one of these local festivals, which are spawned mainly to be municipal coffer-fillers anyway? Although they’ll probably stick around longer than the euro, these get-togethers rarely offer movies with any “legs” that can “travel” to non-regional cinemas. But you’d…