Sundance Film Festival Returns to Park City in Person and Online for January 2022

Jodie Foster will be honored two-fold at the Cannes Film Festival this year, as the actress-director is set to be the guest of honor at the opening ceremony and will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or.In receiving the award, Foster will have a bit of a full-circle moment. When she first attended Cannes as a teenager in 1976, Foster presented Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” which won the Palme d’Or that year.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIconic Chinese indie film director Jia Zhangke is to make a return to the Pingyao International Film Festival that he founded and which he famously quit at the end of the October 2020 edition. His new role remains somewhat murky.Jia was a speaker at a launch event Tuesday in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, used to announce the festival’s dates, the appointment of Lin Xudong as artistic director, and confirm other staffing arrangements for the next edition.

Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor“Pari,” the story of an Iranian mother’s search for her missing son in Athens, directed by Siamak Etemadi, an Iranian who lives in Greece, won the top feature film prize at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, an annual showcase for Greek cinema that wrapped its fifteenth edition on May 30.“Parontes,” under its English title “Being Present,” a penetrating look at the COVID-19 crisis in Greece (pictured above), directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, took home LAGFF’s

If the news about “The French Dispatch” going to Cannes for its world premiere is Hollywood’s worst-kept secret that eventually was confirmed, then the next worst-kept secret about “Dune” heading to the Venice Film Festival must be ready for announcement, right? READ MORE: Bong Joon Ho Named Jury President For This Year’s Venice Film Festival Well, according to Deadline, it appears that all the speculation is true—Denis Villeneuve’s highly-anticipated sci-fi epic, “Dune,” is set to debut at this

Shalini Dore Features News EditorThe 2019 Indian Film Festival Los Angeles concluded on May 27 with the grand prize going to Thamizh’s directorial debut “Seththumaan” (Pig) and Karishma Dev Dube’s short “Bittu.”“It’s a phenomenal first feature, gentle and impactful, done with heart and guts, that is at the same time very candid and very mature and complex,” the features jury said of “Pig,” calling it “a film that impressed us tremendously, both in terms of filmmaking and dramaturgy.”The jury

Haley Bosselman editorBonnie Anderle Bunyik, co-founder of the Hungarian Film Festival of Los Angeles, has died. She was 77.Bunyik died on May 19 in Los Angeles following a battle with ALS, according to her representatives who said she “passed away peacefully and surrounded by loved ones.”The veteran film distributor was raised in L.A.

If the news about “The French Dispatch” going to Cannes for its world premiere is Hollywood’s worst-kept secret that eventually was confirmed, then the next worst-kept secret about “Dune” heading to the Venice Film Festival must be ready for announcement, right? READ MORE: Bong Joon Ho Named Jury President For This Year’s Venice Film Festival Well, according to Deadline, it appears that all the speculation is true—Denis Villeneuve’s highly-anticipated sci-fi epic, “Dune,” is set to debut at this

Next month’s Tribeca Film Festival will close with a still-untitled documentary produced by comedian Dave Chappelle about the issues confronting a rural Ohio town in 2020.

The Tribeca Festival said Thursday that Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming crime drama No Sudden Move will have its world premiere as the Centerpiece Gala at this year’s festival, which is set to run June 9-20 as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSteven Soderbergh’s upcoming crime thriller “No Sudden Move” will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.The film is set to screen on June 18 — at The Battery in New York City — as the festival’s centerpiece gala selection. The cast of “No Sudden Move” is expected to make an appearance at the outdoor event, which is taking place as part of Tribeca’s 12-day celebration to reopen the city and bring back live entertainment.

Cat’s out of the bag. Steven Soderbergh‘s upcoming 1950-set crime thriller, “No Sudden Move” will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June.

Cannes Film Festival will be unveiling its Official Selection on June 3, one week later than the previously planned date of May 27.

The prestigious Cannes Film Festival, which got canceled in 2020 due to the COVID outbreak has delayed its official press conference by one week. As per a report in Variety, the highly anticipated press conference will now occur on June 3.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe London Indian Film Festival is back in cinemas this summer after an all-virtual effort in 2020.In a challenging year for India and South Asia, the Bagri Foundation-run London festival and sister events in Birmingham and Manchester will premiere new indie films from the Indian subcontinent and diaspora, running from June 17-July 4.

Organizers of the Sundance Film Festival said Thursday that next year’s fest will run January 20-30, 2022 and be a mix of in-person and virtual. The news comes after this year’s edition was all-virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Jordan Moreau The Sundance Film Festival has announced the dates for its 2022 edition, which will take place in-person and online in a hybrid format.The festival will return to Park City, Utah, from January 20-30, 2022.“We can’t wait to return to Park City, Salt Lake City — and beyond — for next year’s Sundance Film Festival,” the organization announced Thursday. “The 2022 Festival will take place in-person and online January 20-30.

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic's Karlovy Vary film festival, based in a spa town in the west of the country, plans to roll out the red carpet again in 2021, with organisers setting a later opening than usual on Tuesday. Launched in 1946 in what was then Czechoslovakia, the festival is now one of central and eastern Europe's leading cinema events.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe casts of “Fargo,” “Raging Bull,” “The Five Heartbeats,” and “The Royal Tenenbaums” will reunite at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.In addition, the festival, which is returning to in-person events after COVID scrambled plans for the 2020 edition, will host talks with the likes of Bradley Cooper, Amy Schumer, Gina Prince-Bythewood, M.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe Berlin Film Festival has confirmed that its in-person June event will go ahead as planned, taking place as an outdoor event.Organizers said the event will run from June 9-20, noting that “the Berlinale is pleased to be able to give audiences the enjoyment of an open-air cinema experience at 16 venues in total at the Summer Special.

Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. rights to Fran Kranz’ Mass, which made its world premiere at Sundance back in January. A fourth quarter theatrical release is currently planned.