All Festivals articles
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Reviews‘The Woman Who Poked The Leopard’ review: Intense portrait of Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi
Patience Nitumwesiga profiles the exiled feminist poet in scattergun Doc Leipzig title
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News2025 film festivals and markets calendar: latest dates
Bookmark this page to keep track of all the latest festival dates.
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NewsTIFF Midnight Madness entry ‘The Napa Boys’ lands US deal
Distributor plans early 2026 theatrical release.
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Reviews‘Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through The Eyes Of High School Students’ review: Claire Simon’s involving celebration of the French author
Doc Leipzig’s opening film explores how modern French teenagers respond to Ernaux’s body of work
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NewsJapan revealed as Cannes market country of honour at Tokyo film festival opening night
Juliette Binoche also took aim at AI and social media in a special guest appearance.
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FeaturesChristophe Terhechte reflects on six years at DOK Leipzig and gives key advice to his successor
“Maintaining institutional funding, ensuring fair pay, and securing third-party funding” are key challenges going forward.
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FeaturesCo-production markets are becoming more vital than ever, says DOK Industry head Nadja Tennstedt
As financing sources change, doc filmmakers need to work with more partners.
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Reviews‘Climbing For Life’ review: Sayuri Yoshinaga lifts flat biopic of Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei
Junji Sakamoto’s Tokyo opener turns a pioneering life into a traditional melodrama
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NewsShih-Ching Tsou’s ‘Left-Handed Girl’ wins best film prize at the Rome Film Festival
The festival posted a 6% rise in admissions year-on-year.
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FeaturesHow Tokyo film festival is celebrating auteurs while championing the next generation of filmmakers
One of Asia’s leading festivals has a focus on gender equality and the nurturing of young talent while helping build a strong inter-Asia filmmaking network.
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FeaturesIsabella Rossellini says Rome doc ’Roberto Rossellini – More Than One Life’ tells the truth about her father
The feature documentary by Ilaria De Laurentiis, Raffaele Brunetti and Andrea Paolo Massara premieres at the Rome Film Festival.
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News‘I See The Demon’ leads winners at UK’s Grimmfest film festival
Jacob Lees Johnson’s sci-fi horror won best film and best screenplay.
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FeaturesJulien Temple on being an early adopter of AI, sharing the results with David Bowie
Temple’s feature doc ‘I Am Curious Johnny’ about Johnny Pigozzi is screening at the Rome Film Festival.
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FeaturesWhy José Luis Cienfuegos is putting young audiences at the heart of Valladolid festival week
He predicts films including ‘Hamnet’, ‘Pillion’ and ‘Young Mothers’ will do well with this demographic at the Spanish box office.
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NewsIsabel Coixet’s ‘Three Goodbyes’ opens Valladolid International Film Week
The event, also known as Seminici, offers a €70,000 prize to the Spanish distributor of the winning film.
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NewsSingapore film festival to open with Shu Qi’s ‘Girl’, honours for Deepa Mehta, Youn Yuh-jung
The Landmark section of the festival will spotlight female-driven stories.
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NewsSaudi industry mulls how to get traditional banks to provide finance for film productions
Saudi Film Confex panel heard that it is difficult to get the film industry and the banking sector to align their respective interests.
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NewsAlex Walton, Amanda Nevill and Johnny Depp among speakers at third Saudi Film Confex
Film business exhibition, which aims to develop Saudi industry, has attracted local and international guests.
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Features“It’s rare to find such engagement”: Italian director Paolo Virzì on working with a French seller for ‘Five Seconds’
The latest film from the prolific Virzì is premiering at the Rome Film Festival.
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NewsYoji Yamada to receive lifetime honour at Tokyo film festival
The veteran filmmaker’s latest feature ‘Tokyo Taxi’ to play as the TIFF Centrepiece title.








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