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First and second feature projects in advanced development from Ukraine, India, Philippines and Brazil won the four €40,000 production prizes of the 17th Meeting Event of TorinoFilmLab in the Italian city of Turin on November 23.

The three first features were Indian filmmaker Ashmita Guha Neogi’s Cold Ashes Can Cause Forest Fires, Filipino filmmaker Jarell Serencio’s The Boy And The Fight Of The Spiders and Brazil filmmaker André Hayato Saito’s Yellow Chrysanthemum.

The second feature was Kateryna Gornostai’s Ukrainian project Antonivka.

They were chosen from the Tfl’s 10 FeatureLab projects by a jury comprised of Didar Domehri of France’s Maneki Films,...

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The most prestigious film festival in the world has officially commenced at the French Riviera with 2024 being a significant year for Indian cinema. Seven Indian films have been chosen to be screened at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, with Payal Kapadia-directorial leading the line.

The Malayalam film “All We Imagine as Light” broke the jinx as it became the first Indian cinema in three decades to compete at the festival’s main segment, Palme d’Or. Shaji N. Karun’s 1994 film “Swaham” was the last film to compete in this category.

Though not the Palme d’Or, several other Indian productions have won big in these 30 years and brought glory to the Indian cinema.

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The folks at ScreenDaily have unveiled the 10 projects (nine fiction/one docu) selected for the 2024 FeatureLab training programme (for debut and sophomore projects in the development stage) and among the names we can the likes of Jacqueline Lentzou, André Hayato Saito and Ashmita Guha Neogi — all filmmakers who’ve presented in Cannes. Moon, 66 Questions‘ filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou brings her sophomore project in A Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra to the lab. That feature centers around a protagonist slightly a bit younger than in her feature debut. We have India’s Ashmita Guha Neogi – who shored up in Cannes with her Cinefondation-winning short.…...

Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 projects for the 2024 edition of its FeatureLab training programme, for first or second film projects at an advanced development stage.

The 2024 edition comprises nine fiction features and one documentary feature. Seven of the projects are debut features, with three second films.

In total, FeatureLab will host 21 participants, of whom 14 are women and seven are men. They come from 11 countries - Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, South Korea, Switzerland, Ukraine.

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Among the 10 projects is Versorgen by Swiss writer and director Nora Longatti whose latest short...

The strand is free of style or length constraints.

Films from Jean-Luc Godard, Delphine Girard and Bas Devos will screen in San Sebastian International Film Festival’s Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, a strand of the festival free of style or length constraints.

Godard’s posthumous short film Trailer Of The Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars’, which premiered in Cannes, will open the strand alongside Yui Kiyohara’s debut Remerging Every Night which first screened at Berlinale.

Girard’s debut Through The Night is developed from her Oscar-nominated short A Sister (2020) and will premiere at Venice before heading to San Sebastian.

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Remembering Every Night Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival Víctor Erice Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian/Sefa Sungur San Sebastian Film Festival has announced the line-up for its Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section. The 71st edition has also announced it will honour Spirit Of The Beehive director Víctor Erice with its lifetime achievement Donostia Award.

Zabaltegi-Tabakalera will open with Remembering Every Night, directed by Yui Kiyohara. It will also include a screening of a posthumous short film from Jean-Luc Godard Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars'.)

Documentarian Ulises de la Orden's The Trial, which explores the trial against the military juntas of the Argentinian dictatorship in 1985, will close the section.

The section, which offers flexibility in terms of length and style will also feature world premieres by Ion de Sosa, Andrés Di Tella, Ashmita Guha Neogi, Kohei Igarashi and Rati Oneli and include 15 features, eight shorts and two medium length films.

The new scheme will open for applications during IFFR 2023.

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) has launched a new scheme to fund the post-production of minority European co-productions, while also selecting 11 projects for its Script and Project Development Support initiative.

The Hbf+ Europe: Post-production Scheme will open for applications during IFFR next year, which runs from January 25 to February 5. Applications will be open until April 1; the same dates will apply to the Hbf+Europe: Minority Co-production Scheme.

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“Agra” by Kanu Behl, “Joram” by Devashish Makhija and “Sultana’s Dream” by Isabel Herguera (San Sebastian selection “Kalebegiak”) are among the selections at India’s Film Bazaar Recommends (Fbr) strand.

The strand is a part of Film Bazaar, the South Asia film project market operated by India’s National Film Development Corporation. The Fbr selections, comprising 20 features, two mid-length films and eight shorts are chosen from 247 films in the market’s Viewing Room that presents films from India and South Asia, which are recently completed or still in post-production. The films are available for film festival selection, world sales, distribution partners or finishing funds. All the selections are awaiting their world premieres.

The 30 selected films will have the opportunity to pitch to Bazaar delegates during the market.

The Bazaar has also chosen five projects for its Work-In-Progress Lab, which provides the selected filmmakers an opportunity to screen the rough...

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) announced today its full lineup of narrative and documentary features, and shorts for the festival’s 19th edition, which will be held virtually and geo-blocked to California, on May 20-27.

“This is a very special year for Iffla. Taking the festival online has given us the freedom to curate programs we would not have been able to present in a physical setting. We have expanded our reach to all California residents, doubled the shorts program with a strong representation of films from the diaspora, added special programs like “Childhood on Edge”, and curated discussions on timely and pressing topics, celebrating the independent film community from India and the Indian diaspora,” said Christina Marouda, Executive Director.

Iffla will open with the Los Angeles premiere of the powerful female-centric film, Fire in the Mountains, the 2021 Sundance-selected debut feature by Ajitpal Singh that immerses audiences...

Six-person jury included producer Charles Gillibert as well as filmmakers Rachid Bouchareb and Dea Kulumbegashvi.

The Cannes Film Festival has awarded its only Palme d’Or of the year to Egyptian director Sameh Alaa’s short film I’m Afraid To Forget Your Face, at its three-day special event in Cannes.

It was one of 11 short works in the main short film competition of the symbolic event, running October 27-29, some five months after the festival was forced to cancel its 73rd edition in May due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The jury comprised producer Charles Gillibert; actors Damien Bonnard and Céline Sallette,...