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"Valley Of Souls" After getting cancelled thanks to last year’s coronavirus lockdowns, the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter SFFILM) returns this year with its 2021 edition.  Running from April 9-18, 2021, this year’s SFFILM mixes together online streaming and live events at the Fort Mason Center drive-in.  This year’s program presents 103 films from 41 different countries.  13 of these films are World Premieres. One of these World Premieres takes Opening Night honor...

G. Allen Johnson April 2, 2021 John Boyega stars in “Naked Singularity,” which will make its world premiere as the opening night film of the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival on April 9. Photo: SFFilm Programming a film festival in 2021 has an inherent difficulty: Because of the coronavirus pandemic, filmmakers toiling away in 2020 were challenged like never before. Worries about budget and resources are a constant in independent filmmaking; adding COVID-19 proto...

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) Six past winners of the Golden Bear, the Berlinale’s top prize, Zoomed in at noon, European time, to announce that they had decided to award the 2021 Golden Bear to Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn. In a statement read by Nadav Lapid ( Synonyms, 2019), the jury, whose other members are Ildikó Enyedi ( On Body and Soul, 2017), Adina Pintilie ( Touch Me Not, 2018), Mohammad Rasoulof ( There Is No Evil, 2020), Gianfranco Rosi ( Fire at Sea, 20...

Fred Bailif's Swiss drama 'La Mif takes top honors in Berlin 2021 Generation sidebar, with a special mention for Dash Shaw's animated feature 'Cryptozoo.'

The Berlinale announces the winners of the Generation and Shorts sections 04/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: The Fam by Switzerland’s Fred Baillif has received the Generation 14Plus Grand Prix, while Olga Lucovnicova’s short My Uncle Tudor won the Golden Bear The Fam by Fred Baillif The pandemic, express edition of the Berlinale has already started announcing its award winners. After having kicked off its industry and press event on Monday, it’s now turn for the juries of the Generation and B...

04/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021 : La Mif, du Suisse Fred Baillif, remporte le Grand Prix Generation 14Plus ; My Uncle Tudor d'Olga Lucovnicova gagne l’Ours d’or du meilleur court-métrage

Ana Katz, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, 2021, DCP, black-and-white, sound, 73 minutes. THE PRIZES WERE AWARDED a month ago, some very big deals have closed in recent weeks, and the Sundance Film Festival has closed its streaming platform, hopefully never to be used again—at least not as the primary means of connecting Sundance’s chosen movies to Sundance audiences. Having covered the festival for thirty-two years, the place—Park City, Utah—and my ten-day routine there is stamped int...

By COLLEEN CURRAN | Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond husband-wife team Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s “Cryptozoo,” a dreamy, artsy animated fantasy feature that’s entirely hand-drawn, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January and was quickly snapped up by Magnolia Pictures. The movie is about a cryptozoo: a zoo that houses mythical creatures, such as centaurs, griffins and unicorns. “I started drawing it four years ago, after our daughter was born,â�...

Sundance Horror Film ‘Censor’ Acquired by Magnolia Pictures for Summer Release Prano Bailey-Bond’s feature premiered in the Midnight Section and will play at the BerlinaleBrian Welk | February 23, 2021 @ 8:03 AM Last Updated: February 23, 2021 @ 8:07 AM Courtesy of Sundance Institute Magnolia Pictures has acquired the North American rights to “Censor,” a horror film that premiered in the Midnight Section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Director Prano Bailey-Bond...

Berlinale Films Je Suis Karl, Copilot and Cryptozoo Lead The Match Factory Slate at EFM (EXCLUSIVE) Leo Barraclough, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The Match Factory is taking a strong slate to the European Film Market, including two world premieres: Anne Zohra Berrached’s “Copilot,” which is in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section, and Christian Schwochow’s “Je Suis Karl,” which is in Berlinale Special. Also in the festival program is Dash Shaw’s “Cryptozoo,” the ...