Russia’s Roskino / SEF – formerly known as Sovexportfilm – will set up business, and open a full time office, in the USA. Recently, while attending the Berlinale European Film Market, the company announced, via Roskino / SEF CEO Catherine Mtsitouridze and US based Commis...
Read More »Kino Lorber has announced that they will be releasing "Alps" the new film from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose critically praised last film "Dogtooth" garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. The film will be released in the US in Spring 2012.
Read More »The San Francisco Film Society and New Italian Cinema Events of Florence, Italy will present an eight-day festival devoted to bringing Italy's newest directors and films to the Bay Area.
Read More »Tomas Alfredson will be on hand to present his latest film “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” when the Ghent Film Festival opens on October 11th. The 38th incarnation of the Belgian-based festival will feature Alfredson’s film and a dozen others in this year’s competition.
Read More »Wednesday, the Doha Film Institute (DFI) released a partial lineup for their third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival. “The Lady,” Luc Besson’s biopic of Burmese political activist Aung San Suu Kyi, which premiered at Toronto earlier this month, will close out the five-day event on October 29th. Doha...
Read More »The Margaret Mead Film Festival, the American Museum of Natural History's annual festival of anthropological film named after the famed anthropologist, has announced the seven nominees for its Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award. The seven US premieres were chosen because they "push the boundaries of vis...
Read More »First-time Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky's film "Happy, Happy" has been chosen to represent Norway in the 2012 Oscar race for Foreign Language Film. The Norwegian Oscar Committee selected the film from a shortlist that included this year's "Oslo, August 31st" and "Sons of Norway."
Read More »Imagenation Abu Dhabi has entered into an exclusive international distribution deal with Fortissimo Films.
Read More »The Film Society of Lincoln Center is teaming with the Polish Cultural Institute of New York for a week of contemporary Polish cinema. The series features Jacek Borcuch's "All That I Love," which played at this year's Sundance Film Festival and a two film tribute of digitally restored prints featur...
Read More »North Americans and Brits with a thing for Asian porn in 3D, your prayers have been answered. The Chinese erotic blockbuster "Sex and Zen 3D: Extreme Ecstasy" (it beat the opening-day grosses of "Avatar" in Hong Kong), will hit North America August 12, with the UK and Ireland following September 2.
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