Srinagar: On the second day of the Kargil International Film Festival (KIFF) which is underway in Syed Mehdi Auditorium Hall, Kargil, 25 films were screened. However, the films which were screened today were the national and international category films that featured House of Norway, The Hallway and many more. Director of KIFF Meraj Siddiqui said that the response to the festival was overwhelming and that his team hoped they could continue the same in the future too. “I think cinema which is a medium of communication will explore Kargil to the outside and the outsiders to the Kargil vice versa,”…
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The theme of this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival was to “explore new worlds”, which saw matters of social justice, empathy and connection examined in many films. Between us, we saw 34 films this year. These are our highlights. Sacred deer and sacred music Felicity Ford It seems peculiar to name The Killing of a Sacred Deer as my favourite film of the festival as I spent most of the screening oscillating between anxiously gripping the edge of my seat and nervously laughing. But it is always an illuminating experience to step into the mind of director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster) and…
Sankagiri Rajkumar, the independent filmmaker who directed the film Vengayam earlier, has now come out with a first-of-its-kind attempt. His second film, titled ‘All One’, has been made all by the director himself — right from scripting till the final post-production works. “I decided to make the film as an experimental project. At the same time, I did not want to cheat by having a script like 127 Hours or Buried, where the film is about a single character. This script is something that wouldn’t be out of place in a big-budget film, with a lot of characters, multiple locations…
Javier Bardem, Gael García Bernal, Angelina Jolie and Helen Mirren will headline a series of public conversations about their careers as part of this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Many of these actors and filmmakers aren’t just trekking to Canada to take a jaunt down memory lane. They’re also on hand to launch new films. Bardem stars in “mother!,” Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming horror film, and “Loving Pablo,” both of which will debut at the festival. Jolie is bringing “First They Killed My Father,” a drama about the Cambodian genocide that she made for Netflix, to the gathering. Mirren is appearing opposite…
Asghar Farhadi, the Oscar-winning Iranian director of “A Separation” and “The Salesman,” has kicked off principal photography on “Everybody Knows” (“Todos Lo Saben”), his psychological thriller starring Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Ricardo Darin. Budgeted at 10 million euros ($11.8 million), the Spanish-language film is being produced by Alexandre Mallet-Guy at Paris-based Memento Films Production and Alvaro Longoria at Spanish outfit Morena Films. Written by Farhadi, “Everybody Knows” follows the journey of Carolina as she travels with her family from Buenos Aires to her hometown in Spain for a celebration. Meant to be a brief visit, the trip is disturbed…
One of the world’s most famous living artists is headed to New York City this fall, and he’s bringing a massive public art project with him. Ai Weiwei, the prolific Chinese artist and activist famously profiled in the documentary “Never Sorry,” is behind the ambitious “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” project set to take over NYC this October. Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, the five-borough exhibition will involve over 300 locations and hundreds of individual artworks, turning the sprawling city into an unconventional canvas for his collage-like experiment. According to a statement announcing the project’s specific locations on Tuesday, Ai’s…
As movie theaters struggle with tepid sales, Mitch Lowe has an extreme proposal for how to get more people into seats: Let them come to all the showings they want for about the price of a single ticket each month. Lowe, an early Netflix Inc. executive who now runs a startup called MoviePass, plans to drop the price of the company’s movie ticket subscriptions on Tuesday to $9.95. The fee will let customers get in to one showing every day at any theater in the U.S. that accepts debit cards. MoviePass will pay theaters the full price of each ticket…
The European film Academy (EFA) has revealed the 51 fiction films that will compete for nomination at the 30th European Film Awards. A total of 31 European nations are represented on the list. One national film has been voted into selection from the 20 counties with the most EFA members. The rest of the list was selected by the EFA board and invited experts Péter Bognár (Hungary), Dave Calhoun (UK), Giorgio Gosetti (Italy), Christophe Leparc (France), Jacob Neiendam (Denmark) and Alik Shpilyuk (Ukraine). Members of the EFA will vote in the coming weeks to nominate films for the categories of…
The Los Angeles Workers Center and Hollywood Progressive co-present the Soviet Ukrainian revolutionary classic film Earth (Zemlya). It is part of a series, Ten Films That Shook the World: A Cinematic Centennial Celebration of the Russian Revolution. Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s masterpiece Earth is about class struggle in a rural Ukrainian village, pitting poor peasants against “kulaks” (rich landowners). Class conflict erupts after the Bolsheviks make a tractor available to the underdeveloped farming sector as a harbinger of the socialist future. Under Dovzhenko’s lyrical direction, Danylo Demutsky’s stunning cinematography captures on celluloid indelible images and scenes. The poetic pictures pairing peasants with…
TORONTO – (August 22, 2017) – Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment has announced the 2017 TIFF North American Premiere of HUMAN TRACES in Toronto on Sunday, September 10, 2017 at 9:30PM at TIFF Lightbox Cinema 3 followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, and talent, with encore screenings and Q&As on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 7:00PM Scotiabank 8 and 12:15PM Friday, September 15, 2017 at Scotiabank 10. There will be a Press and Industry screening at 2:45PM on Saturday, September 9, 2017 at Scotiabank 8. The film hails from New Zealand where it’s receiving numerous accolades for its excellent…