Toronto Film Festival Unveils Contemporary World Cinema and Discovery Lineup

Jamie Lang This year’s 38th Jerusalem Film Festival will host a tribute to iconic Israeli company Cannon Films and producers Yoram Globus and Menachem Golan, curated in collaboration with Quentin Tarantino. The Cannon Film Group produced and distributed films from 1967 to 1993.

The Toronto Film Festival has set the competition lineup for its Platforms program, naming Riz Ahmed as head of the jury.

Spain’s San Sebastian International Film Festival made the controversial decision to honour Johnny Depp with its Donostia Award.

Organizers of the Beijing International Film Festival have postponed the event due to increasing Covid cases in China.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHighly-anticipated mainland Chinese film “The Battle at Lake Changjin,” which was due to have been released later this month has been postponed to an unspecified date. The move, announced late on Thursday, was caused by a recent resurgence in COVID-19 cases in China.The film is a Korean War epic that is co-directed by Chen Kaige, Hark Tsui and Dante Lam and should have released on Aug.

Jennifer Yuma editorThe Toronto International Film Festival has revealed that Jessica Chastain, star and producer of “The Eyes Of Tammy Faye,” will receive the Tribute Actor Award at the festival’s 46th edition this year.“Jessica has brought to life such strong and inspiring roles for women, from the films that have screened at TIFF such as ‘The Debt,’ ‘Take Shelter,’ ‘The Martian,’ ‘Crimson Peak’ and ‘Molly’s Game,’ to the upcoming world premiere of ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ at the Festival –

Selome Hailu editorThe Toronto International Film Festival announced which films will fill the TIFF Docs, Midnight Madness, and Wavelength sections at this year’s edition of the event, which runs from Sept. 9-18.

TIFF DOCSAttica Stanley Nelson | USAWorld Premiere – Opening Night FilmBeba Rebeca Huntt | USA/MexicoWorld PremiereBecoming Cousteau Liz Garbus | USAInternational PremiereBurning Eva Orner | AustraliaWorld PremiereComala Gian Cassini | MexicoWorld PremiereThe Devil’s Drivers Mohammed Abugeth, Daniel Carsenty | Qatar/France/Lebanon/GermanyWorld PremiereFlee Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark/France/Sweden/NorwayCanadian PremiereHold Your Fire Stefan Forbes | USAWorld PremiereListening to Kenny G Pen

Rebecca Davis editorTop Chinese social media platform Weibo has banned the official account of the German consulate in Guangzhou for “violating community standards” after it posted information about a LGBTQ film festival jointly hosted with 16 other foreign governments.The ban, which has now been in effect for more than two full days, was instated after nationalist Weibo users flooded the platform’s censors with reports that the German consulate’s message was politically problematic.All of the

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival has unveiled the lineup of its VR Expanded sidebar dedicated to virtual reality works. As many as 37 projects from 21 countries will be presented, including 23 titles in competition.

The Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its lineups for the Contemporary World Cinema and Discovery programs as it ramps up toward the kickoff of its 46th edition September 9-18. The festival also solidified additional Gala and Special Presentation titles and took the wraps off TIFF Rewind, a new block that highlights memorable films from previous TIFF editions along with conversations and Q&As with directors and casts.

The 2021 San Sebastian Film Festival (September 17-25) has revealed the 13 features that will compete in its New Directors showcase.

Matt Damon is opening up about getting emotional after his new film got a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.Damon walked the red carpet at the premiere of his new drama thriller,, on Monday, at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, and he opened up to ET's Rachel Smith about how he got choked up earlier this month after the successful Cannes debut.«I mean, I turned to the director [Tom McCarthy] and I was like, »I'm thinking I am getting old because I am really

Dune and Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho.Also set to premiere at the September festival, a highlight of the film calendar, is the Adam Driver and Jodie Comer-starring The Last Duel, with all three films screening out of competition.Among those competing in competition for the prestigious Golden Lion are Diana biopic Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart, Jane Campion’s Netflix film The Power of the Dog with Benedict Cumberbatch and Paolo Sorrentino drama The Hand of God.Maggie Gyllenhaal’s

After its restricted but still strong 77th edition, the Venice Film Festival is back with a vengeance, with what might be its most exciting line-up in years – a far cry from the bizarre announcements of this year’s TIFF (which boasts… “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” of all things). This morning in Rome, the line-up of the forthcoming 78th edition was announced in full, ahead of its planned opening on 1 September.

With the Cannes Film Festival in the rearview, the next big festival to focus on this fall will be the 78th Annual Venice Film Festival. Major films are already tipped to debut there, Denis Villeneuve‘s sci-fi blockbuster “Dune” Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana drama “Spencer,” “Halloween Kills,” and new films by Pedro Almodovar and Jane Campion.

Filmmakers Denis Villeneuve and Alanis Obomsawin are among those being honoured at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.

Filmmakers Denis Villeneuve and Alanis Obomsawin are among those being honored at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.TIFF co-heads Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey said Thursday that Villeneuve will receive the TIFF Ebert Director Award and Obomsawin will be honored with the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media at the 2021 TIFF Tribute Awards.

A total of 47 films will compete at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival across its four competitive sections. The event will feature 18 world premieres and three international premieres.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticFor all those hoping that the in-person 2021 edition of the Cannes Film Festival would mark a return to “normal,” the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or must have been a shocker — not the choice by Spike Lee’s jury (the choice was solid) so much as the movie itself: “Titane,” a radical queer take on the monster movie that bends the rules of genre, gender and gore.That this punk sensation was directed by a woman (only the second to win the Palme, after “The Piano”