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Just over a year ago, the 2020 edition of the Sundance Film Festival launched in the snow-capped mountains of Park City, Utah, as it has every year since its founding in 1978. One of the most significant American film festivals commenced only three days after the first documented case of COVID-19 and concluded only three days after the declaration of a public-health emergency in the United States. The year since has been filled with tremendous loss and crippling struggle. It has been an extende...

film profile], a work which was awarded Cannes’ 2020 Critics’ Week label, which was doubly honoured at Sitges (with the Jury Special Prize and Best Actress accolade) and which is currently revealing itself to be a huge attraction in the competition of the 26th Gérardmer Fantastic Film Festival (online from 27 to 31 January), where it is dominating viewing figure rankings, hands down. It’s an extraordinary and highly deserved infatuation which Netflix are sharing in, having already bough...

Just over a year ago, the 2020 edition of the Sundance Film Festival launched in the snow-capped mountains of Park City, Utah, as it has every year since its founding in 1978. One of the most significant American film festivals commenced only three days after the first documented case of COVID-19 and concluded only three days after the declaration of a public-health emergency in the United States. The year since has been filled with tremendous loss and crippling struggle. It has been an extende...

film profile], adding yet another trophy to an already impressive collection which began with the 2020 Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection label and the 2020 European Film Award for Best Animated Film, and continued with the 2021 Lumières award in the same category. Interestingly, this is the first time an animated feature has been singled out for this award (the genre having only ever been honoured by the main jury in 1979, courtesy of Paul Grimault’s The King and the Mockingbird...

Up-and-coming young directors selected for Angers’ Premiers Plans Film Festival move to an online showcase Digger by Georgis Grigorakis Health-related restrictions and cinema closures in France have left the 33rd edition of Angers’ Premiers Plans Film Festival (steered by General Delegate and Artistic Director Claude-Éric Poiroux) with no option but to unfold virtually between 25 and 31 January 2021. Consequently, thanks to a partnership with La Vingt-Cinquième Heure, viewers wi...

Las jóvenes promesas del Premiers Plans se pasan a internet Digger, de Georgis Grigorakis Este artículo está disponible en inglés. Health-related restrictions and cinema closures in France have left the 33rd edition of Angers’ Premiers Plans Film Festival (steered by General Delegate and Artistic Director Claude-Éric Poiroux) with no option but to unfold virtually between 25 and 31 January 2021. Consequently, thanks to a partnership with La Vingt-Cinquième Heure, viewers will be able to...

Le giovani promesse di Premiers Plans si smaterializzano Digger di Georgis Grigorakis Questo articolo è disponibile in inglese. Health-related restrictions and cinema closures in France have left the 33rd edition of Angers’ Premiers Plans Film Festival (steered by General Delegate and Artistic Director Claude-Éric Poiroux) with no option but to unfold virtually between 25 and 31 January 2021. Consequently, thanks to a partnership with La Vingt-Cinquième Heure, viewers will be able to enjoy...

MLK/FBI (2020) Another record-breaking, history-making week in America has managed to squeeze in a bit of movie news as well. Specifically, festival news. Bong Joon Ho, whose Parasite won the Palme d’Or in 2019 and four Oscars last year, will preside over the jury in Venice. The seventy-eighth edition is set to run from September 1 through 11. Sundance, whose hybrid 2021 edition opens on January 28, has added two films to its lineup. Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah stars Daniel ...

Thomas Rosso • Programme Manager, Critics’ Week "We’re working with the future in mind" 08/01/2021 - The new programme manager for Cannes’ Critics’ Week looks back on the 7th edition of Next Step which unfurled in December, and also touches upon Critics’ Week 2021 Named programme manager for the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week having notably worked for La Fémis, the Les Arcs Film Festival’s Talent Village, Why Not Productions and LImage Retro...