Mads Mikkelsen Talks Humanizing Villains and Taking Comedy Seriously During Sarajevo Film Festival Master Class

Mads Mikkelsen's chiseled features, raspy voice and cool steely gaze have made the Danish actor a go-to bad guy for any casting agent looking for a supervillain — James Bond's nemesis Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, Doctor Strange's warlock adversary Kaecilius — or serial killer (TV's Hannibal) with a touch of class.

The first major award of 2020, and in particular, the 2020 fall film festival season, has now been given out. The Venice Film Festival announced their prize winners, with the top prize, known as the Golden Lion, going to Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland.

With a much different than usual Venice Film Festival now come to a close, it’s time for the annual awards ceremony that marks the beginning of the awards season, whatever that means in this strange year.

Guy Lodge Film CriticOne day after premiering and receiving the most rapturous reviews of any film in competition, U.S.-based Chinese director Chloé Zhao has won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for her film “Nomadland,” a documentary-influenced road movie starring Frances McDormand as an itinerant widow traveling across America.

The 8th Queer Screen Film Festival returns with a program that includes 11 narrative features, three documentaries, and three packages of short films. Owing to COVID-19 restrictions, the festival will be available online and on-demand, but there will be a one-off Drag Queen Drive-In Time where two films will be screened for festival enthusiasts who are desperate to see queer flicks on the big screen!There’s a great selection of films to choose from and the shorts packages (gay, lesbian, and

Diego Boneta brings his mom, Astrid, to the Leadership Awards event during the 2020 Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy on Friday (September 4).

Cate Blanchett is encouraging the reemergence of the film industry amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as the Jury President of the Venice Film Festival, the Hollywood actress is thrilled to be present for the annual event and she couldn’t be more proud to support and help filmmakers share their work after the worldwide health crisis has affected the film industry in a major way.The Oscar winner urges for a safe reopening of cinema gatherings, and congratulates the effort and organization of

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: In the early 20th century, an impoverished teenage Italian cobbler sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood’s go-to shoemaker during the silent era.

A spot in competition at the Venice Film Festival can launch careers and Oscar winners, but in recent years, films directed by women have been mostly excluded from vying for the coveted Golden Lion.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorA film festival is about more than just the films and the festival center. It is about the location, the journey, the experience.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Hamptons Film Festival will open its virtual and drive-in edition with the world premiere of With Drawn Arms, the documentary about the legacy of Olympian Tommie Smith’s fist-raising moment at the 1968 Olympics.The film will also be awarded HIFF’s Film of Conflict & Resolution Award, given to a project that deals with the complex issues and societal effects of war and violence, and the attendant human dramas, in creative ways.

Kris Jenner gets emotional as she speaks about missing her mom M.J. during lockdown in a new “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” clip.

Ammonite, the buzzy LGBT period romance starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, is set to close the 2020 BFI London Film Festival. The film — from Brit director Francis Lee (God's Own Country) which will have its world premiere in Toronto in September — will bow in the U.K.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe BFI London Film Festival has set Francis Lee’s Ammonite as its closing film.Starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, the film is set in the 1840s, following palaeontologist Mary Anning when she encounters a young woman recuperating from a personal tragedy,It is world premiering at Toronto and also took part in the 2020 Cannes Label selection at the cancelled French festival.The London screening will take place on October 17 at cinemas across the UK,

Naman Ramachandran The U.K. premiere of “Ammonite,” starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, and directed by Francis Lee (“God’s Own Country”), will close the British Film Institute London Film Festival on Oct.

Rebecca Davis editorCambodian director Rithy Panh survived the brutal Khmer Rouge regime that took the lives of many of his friends and family.

The Venice Film Festival, the first major in-person cinema showcase of the COVID-19 era, is requiring participants to wear face masks during screenings and take a coronavirus test if they are arriving from outside Europe. According to guidelines published Thursday, fans and the general public will be kept away from the red carpet during the Sept.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterAfter being forced to pivot entirely online last-minute due to a COVID spike, Bosnia’s Sarajevo Film Festival is coming to a close and has unveiled its prize winners for this year’s edition.A jury chaired by Michel Hazanavicius and featuring Berlinale director Carlo Chatrian, actress Jadranka Đokić, director Srdan Golubović and the Morelia Film Festival’s Andrea Stavenhagen, awarded the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo, to Visar Morina’s Exile.

Christopher Vourlias Visar Morina’s “Exile,” a tense psychodrama about a Kosovan pharmacologist in Germany who becomes increasingly paranoid over a series of menacing events, won the top prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival, earning the Kosovo-born German director the Heart of Sarajevo.The award ceremony took place online Thursday night, with Morina winning top honors from a jury led by Academy Award-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”) and comprised of Carlo Chatrian, artistic