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There are twelve competitive FIAPF-accreditated film festivals that occur each year, and knowledge of their selections and winners are essential for anyone interested in keeping up to date with world film! I'll update this chart throughout the year with the selections and awards for each of these festivals, as I did in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

1st Prize or Equivalent
Berlin: Caesar Must Die / Cesare deve morire - Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Cairo:
Cannes: Amour - Michael Haneke
Karlovy Vary: The Almost Man / Mer eller mindre mann - Martin Lund
Locarno: The Girl from Nowhere / La fille de nulle part - Jean-Claude Brisseau
Mar del Plata:
Montréal: Where the Fire Burns / Atesin düstügü yer - İsmail Gunes
Moscow: Junkhearts - Tinge Krishnan
San Sebastián:
Shanghai: Bear / Khers - Khosrow Masoumi
Tokyo:
Venice:

2nd Prize or Equivalent
Berlin: Just the Wind / Csak a szél - Fliegauf Benedek
Cairo:
Cannes: Reality - Matteo Garrone
Karlovy Vary: Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy / Romanzo di una strage - Marco Tullio Giordana
Locarno: Somebody Up There Likes Me - Bob Byington
Mar del Plata:
Montréal: (TIE) Invasion - Dito Tsintsadze
Montréal: (TIE) Orange Honey / Miel de naranjas - Imanol Uribe
Moscow: Expiration Date / Fecha de caducidad - Kenya Marquez
San Sebastián:
Shanghai: For the Love of God / Pour l'amour de Dieu - Micheline Lanctôt
Tokyo:
Venice:

3rd Prize or Equivalent
Berlin: Sister / L'enfant d'en haut - Ursula Meier
Cairo:
Cannes: The Angels' Share - Ken Loach
Karlovy Vary: n/a
Locarno: n/a
Mar del Plata:
Montréal: n/a
Moscow: n/a
San Sebastián:
Shanghai: n/a
Tokyo:
Venice:

Best Director
Berlin: Christian Petzold - Barbara
Cairo:
Cannes: Carlos Reygadas - Post Tenebras Lux
Karlovy Vary: Rafaël Ouellet - Camion
Locarno: Ying Liang - When Night Falls / Wo hai you hua yao shou
Mar del Plata:
Montréal: Jan Troell - The Last Sentence / Dom över död man
Moscow: Andrei Proshkin - The Horde / Orda
San Sebastián:
Shanghai: Gao Qunshu - Detective Hunter Zhang / Shen tan heng te zhang
Tokyo:
Venice:

Best Actor
Berlin: Mikkel Følsgaard - A Royal Affair / En kongelig affære
Cairo:
Cannes: Mads Mikkelsen - The Hunt / Jagten
Karlovy Vary: (TIE) Eryk Lubos - To Kill a Beaver / Zabić bobra
Karlovy Vary: (TIE) Henrik Rafaelsen - The Almost Man / Mer eller mindre mann
Locarno: Walter Saabel - The Shine of Day / Der Glanz des Tages
Mar del Plata:
Montréal: Karl Merkatz - Coming of Age / Anfang 80
Moscow: Eddie Marsan - Junkhearts
San Sebastián:
Shanghai: Vladas Bagdonas - The Conductor / Dirizhyor
Tokyo:
Venice:

Best Actress
Berlin: Rachel Mwanza - War Witch / Rebelle
Cairo:
Cannes: Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan - Beyond the Hills / Dupã dealuri
Karlovy Vary: Leila Hatami - The Last Step / Peleh akhar
Locarno: An Nai - When Night Falls / Wo hai you hua yao shou
Mar del Plata:
Montréal: Brigitte Hobmeier - Closed Season / Ende der Schonzeit
Moscow: Roza Khairullina - The Horde / Orda
San Sebastián:
Shanghai: Ursula Pruneda - The Dream of Lu / El sueño de Lú
Tokyo:
Venice:

Best Screenplay
Berlin: A Royal Affair / En kongelig affære
Cairo:
Cannes: Beyond the Hills / Dupã dealuri
Karlovy Vary: n/a
Locarno: n/a
Mar del Plata:
Montréal: Shanghai Gypsy / Šanghaj
Moscow: n/a
San Sebastián:
Shanghai: Key of Life / Kagi dorobō no method
Tokyo:
Venice:

FIPRESCI Prize
Berlin: Tabu - Miguel Gomes
Cairo:
Cannes: In the Fog / V tumane - Sergei Loznitsa
Karlovy Vary: The Last Step / Peleh akhar - Ali Mosaffa
Locarno: Leviathan - Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Mar del Plata:
Montréal: Where the Fire Burns / Atesin düstügü yer - İsmail Gunes
Moscow: A.C.A.B. - Stefano Sollima
San Sebastián:
Shanghai: n/a
Tokyo:
Venice:

The following two festivals are not FIAPF-accreditated but are also important events:

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic: Beasts of the Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin
Grand Jury Prize - Documentary: The House I Live In - Eugene Jarecki
World Cinema Jury Prize - Dramatic: Violeta Went to Heaven / Violeta se fue a los cielos - Andrés Wood
World Cinema Jury Prize - Documentary: The Law in These Parts - Ra'anan Alexandrowicz

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Audience Award:

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The Berlin International Film Festival ran from February 9th to February 19th this year.
The Cairo International Film Festival is running from November 27th to December 6th this year.
The Cannes International Film Festival ran from May 16th to May 27th this year.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ran from June 29th to July 7th this year.
The Locarno International Film Festival ran from August 1st to August 11th this year.
The Mar del Plata International Film Festival is running from November 17th to November 25th this year.
The Montréal World Film Festival ran from August 23rd to September 3rd this year.
The Moscow International Film Festival ran from June 21st to June 30th this year.
The San Sebastián International Film Festival is running from September 21st to September 29th this year.
The Shanghai International Film Festival ran from June 16th to June 24th this year.
The Tokyo International Film Festival is running from October 20th to October 28th this year.
The Venice International Film Festival is running from August 29th to September 8th this year.

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BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
JURY:
President - Mike Leigh (British director)
Anton Corbijn (Dutch director)
Asghar Farhadi (Iranian director)
Charlotte Gainsbourg (French actress)
Jake Gyllenhaal (American actor)
François Ozon (French director)
Boualem Sansal (Algerian author)
Barbara Sukowa (German actress)

A Royal Affair / En kongelig affære - Nikolaj Arcel
Barbara - Christian Petzold
Caesar Must Die / Cesare deve morire - Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Captive - Brillante Mendoza
Childish Games / Dictado - Antonio Chavarrías
Coming Home / À moi seule - Frédéric Videau
Farewell My Queen / Les adieux à la reine - Benoît Jacquot
Home for the Weekend / Was bleibt - Hans-Christian Schmid
Jayne Mansfield's Car - Billy Bob Thornton
Just the Wind / Csak a szél - Fliegauf Benedek
Mercy / Gnade - Matthias Glasner
Meteora / Metéora - Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Postcards from the Zoo / Kebun binatang - Edwin
Sister / L'enfant d'en haut - Ursula Meier
Tabu - Miguel Gomes
Today / Aujourd'hui - Alain Gomis
War Witch / Rebelle - Kim Nguyen
White Deer Plain / Bai lu yuan - Wang Quan'an



CAIRO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL



CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
JURY:
President - Nanni Moretti (Italian director)
Hiam Abbass (Palestinian actress)
Andrea Arnold (English director)
Emmanuelle Devos (French actress)
Jean Paul Gaultier (French fashion designer)
Diane Kruger (German actress)
Ewan McGregor (Scottish actor)
Alexander Payne (American director)
Raoul Peck (Haitian director)

After the Battle / Baad el mawkeaa - Yousry Nasrallah
Amour - Michael Haneke
Beyond the Hills / Dupã dealuri - Cristian Mungiu
Cosmopolis - David Cronenberg
Holy Motors - Leos Carax
In Another Country / Da-reun na-ra-e-suh - Hong Sang-soo
In the Fog / V tumane - Sergei Loznitsa
Killing Them Softly - Andrew Dominik
Lawless - John Hillcoat
Like Someone in Love - Abbas Kiarostami
Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson
Mud - Jeff Nichols
On the Road - Walter Salles
Paradise: Love / Paradies: Liebe - Ulrich Seidl
Post Tenebras Lux - Carlos Reygadas
Reality - Matteo Garrone
Rust and Bone / De rouille et d'os - Jacques Audiard
The Angels' Share - Ken Loach
The Hunt / Jagten - Thomas Vinterberg
The Paperboy - Lee Daniels
The Taste of Money / Do-nui mat - Im Sang-soo
You Haven't Seen Anything Yet / Vous n'avez encore rien vu - Alain Resnais



KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
JURY:
President - Richard Peña (American curator)
Rajko Grlić (Croatian director)
Maria Hatzakouu (Greek producer)
Makram Khoury (Palestinian actor)
Joanna Kos (Polish director)
Ivo Mathé (Czech administrator)
François Papineau (Canadian actor)

Boy Eating the Bird's Food / To agori troi to fagito tou pouliou - Ektoras Lygizos
Camion - Rafael Ouellet
Hay Road / Estrada de Palha - Rodrigo Areias
Kamihate Store / Kamihate shoten - Tatsuya Yamamoto
La lapidation de Saint Etienne - Pere Vilá Barceló
Nos Vemos Papa - Lucia Carreras
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy / Romanzo di una strage - Marco Tullio Giordana
Polski film - Marek Najbrt
The Almost Man / Mer eller mindre mann - Martin Lund
The Last Step / Peleh akhar - Ali Mosaffa
To Kill a Beaver / Zabić bobra - Jan Jakub Kolski
Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing... / Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert... - Hüseyin Tabak



LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
JURY:
President - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thai director)
Roger Avary (American screenwriter)
Im Sang-soo (Korean director)
Noémie Lvovsky (French actress)
Hans Ulrich Obrist (Swiss curator)

Berberian Sound Studio - Peter Strickland
Compliance - Craig Zobel
Greatest Hits / Los mejores temas - Nicolás Pereda
Image Problem - Simon Baumann, Andreas Pfiffner
Jack and Diane - Bradley Rust Gray
Leviathan - Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Mobile Home - François Pirot
Museum Hours - Jem Cohen
Playback - Sho Miyake
Polvo - Julio Hernández Cordón
Somebody Up There Likes Me - Bob Byington
Starlet - Sean Baker
The End of Time - Peter Mettler
The Girl from Nowhere / La fille de nulle part - Jean-Claude Brisseau
The Landlords / Padroni di casa - Edoardo Gabbriellini
The Last Time I Saw Macao / A Última Vez Que Vi Macau - João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
The Shine of Day / Der Glanz des Tages - Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Une estonienne à Paris - Ilmar Raag
When Night Falls / Wo hai you hua yao shuo - Ying Liang



MAR DEL PLATA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL



MONTRÉAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
JURY:
President - Greta Scacchi (Australian actress)
Véra Belmont (French producer)
Michel Côté (Canadian actor)
Kim Dong-ho (Korean administrator)
Andrei Plakhov (Russian critic)
Goya Toledo (Spanish actress)
Wang Xueqi (Chinese actor)

Bad Seeds / Comme un homme - Safy Nebbou
Closed Season / Ende der Schonzeit - Franziska Schlotterer
Coming of Age / Anfang 80 - Gerhard Ertl, Sabine Hiebler
Dearest / Anatae - Yasuo Furuhata
Expiation / Iskupleniye - Aleksandr Proshkin
Flower Square / Cvjetni trg - Krsto Papić
Invasion - Dito Tsintsadze
Karakara - Claude Gagnon
Manhunt / Obława - Marcin Krzyształowicz
Orange Honey / Miel de naranjas - Imanol Uribe
Shanghai Gypsy / Šanghaj - Marko Nabersnik
The Last Sentence / Dom över död man - Jan Troell
The Weekend / Das Wochenende - Nina Grosse
The Wild Ones / Els nens salvatges - Patricia Ferreira
Two Jacks - Bernard Rose
Where the Fire Burns / Atesin düstügü yer - İsmail Gunes
Wings / Zuizhang de yongbao - Yang Yazhou, Yang Bo



MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
JURY:
Hector Babenco (Brazilian director)
Jean-Marc Barr (French actor)
Adriana Chiesa di Palma (Italian distribution head)
Sergei Loban (Russian director)

80 Million / 80 millionów - Waldemar Krzystek
A.C.A.B. - Stefano Sollima
A Cherry on a Pomegranate Tree / Shi liu shu shang jie ying tao - Chen Li
Cannibal Vegetarian / Ljudožder vegetarijanac - Branko Schmidt
Expiration Date / Fecha de caducidad - Kenya Marquez
Fire in Hell / Jioghwa - Lee Sang-woo
Growing in the Wind / Routedan dar bad - Rahbar Ghanbari
Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg / Golfstrim pod aysbergom - Yevgeny Pashkevich
July / Krapetz - Kiril Stankov
Junkhearts - Tinge Krishnan
Lonely Island / Üksik saar - Peeter Simm
Magnificent Presence / Magnifica presenza - Ferzan Özpetek
Naked Harbour / Vuosaari - Aku Louhimies
O Apóstolo - Fernando Cortizo
Rita's Last Fairy Tale / Poslednyaya skazka Rity - Renata Litvinova
The Door / Az ajtó - Szabó István
The Horde / Orda - Andrei Proshkin



SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

All Apologies - Emily Tang
Arbitrage - Nicholas Jarecki
Capital / Le capital - Costa-Gavras
Fishing Days / Días de pesca - Carlos Sorín
Foxfire - Laurent Cantet
In the House / Dans la maison - François Ozon
Rhino Season / Fasle kargadan - Bahman Ghobadi
Snow White / Blancanieves - Pablo Berger
The Artist and the Model / El artista y la modelo - Fernando Trueba
The Attack - Ziad Doueiri
The Dead and the Living / Die Lebenden - Barbara Albert
The Dead Man and Being Happy / El muerto y ser feliz - Javier Rebollo
The Hypnotist / Hypnotisören - Lasse Hallström
Twice Born / Venuto al mondo - Sergio Castellitto




SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
JURY:
President - Jean-Jacques Annaud (French director)
Rakhshan Banietemad (Iranian director)
Terence Chang (Hong Kong producer)
Heather Graham (American actress)
Li Bingbing (Chinese actress)
Pálfi György (Hungarian director)
Zhang Yang (Chinese director)

Bear / Khers - Khosrow Masoumi
Chrysalis / De tu ventana a la mía - Paula Ortiz
Colour of Sky / Akashathinte Niram - Biju
Detective Hunter Zhang / Shen tan heng te zhang - Gao Qunshu
Excuse Me / Undskyld jeg forstyrrer - Henrik Ruben Genz
Falling Flowers - Huo Jianqi
For the Love of God / Pour l'amour de Dieu - Micheline Lanctôt
House with a Turret / Dom s bashenkoy - Eva Neymann
I, Anna - Barnaby Southcombe
Isztambul - Török Ferenc
Key of Life / Kagi dorobō no method - Kenji Uchida
Rat King - Petri Kotwica
Stars Above / Tahtitaivas talon ylla - Saara Cantell
The Conductor / Dirizhyor - Pavel Lungin
The Dream of Lu / El sueño de Lú - Hari Sama
The Totentanz: Scenes from the Warsaw Uprising / Taniec śmierci. Sceny z Powstania Warszawskiego - Leszek Wosiewicz
White Tiger / Bely tigr - Karen Shakhnazarov



TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL



VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
JURY:
President - Michael Mann (American director)
Marina Abramović (Serbian artist)
Laetitia Casta (French actress)
Peter Chan (Hong Kong director)
Ari Folman (Israeli director)
Matteo Garrone (Italian director)
Ursula Meier (French director)
Samantha Morton (English actress)
Pablo Trapero (Argentinean director)

A Special Day / Un giorno speciale - Francesca Comencini
At Any Price - Ramin Bahrani
Betrayal / Izmena - Kirill Serebrennikov
Dormant Beauty / Bella addormentata - Marco Bellocchio
Fill the Void / Lemale et ha’Chalal - Rama Burshtein
It Was the Son / È stato il figlio - Daniele Ciprì
Lines of Wellington / Linhas de Wellington - Valeria Sarmiento
Outrage: Beyond - Takeshi Kitano
Paradise: Faith / Paradies: Glaube - Ulrich Seidl
Passion - Brian De Palma
Pieta - Kim Ki-duk
Something in the Air / Après mai - Olivier Assayas
Spring Breakers - Harmony Korine
Superstar - Xavier Giannoli
The Fifth Season / La cinquième saison - Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson
Thy Womb / Sinapupunan - Brillante Mendoza
To the Wonder - Terrence Malick



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Berlin starts tomorrow so I’ll do my (completely blind) predictions now:

GOLDEN BEAR - “JUST THE WIND”, Fliegauf Benedek
JURY PRIZE - “WHITE DEER PLAIN”, Wang Quan’an
BEST DIRECTOR - Miguel Gomes, “TABU”
BEST ACTOR - Lars Eidinger, “HOME FOR THE WEEKEND”
BEST ACTRESS - Agathe Bonitzer, “COMING HOME”
BEST SCRIPT - “MERCY”, Matthias Glasner
OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION - “A ROYAL AFFAIR”, Nikolaj Arcel
ALFRED BAUER PRIZE - “CAESAR MUST DIE”, Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani

All of the Berlinale films have screened so these are my final predictions:

Golden Bear: “TABU”, Miguel Gomes
Jury Prize: “JUST THE WIND”, Fliegauf Benedek
Best Director: Christian Petzold, “BARBARA”
Best Actor: Lars Eidinger, “HOME FOR THE WEEKEND”
Best Actress: Rachel Mwanza, “WAR WITCH”
Best Script: “SISTER”, Ursula Meier
Outstanding Artistic Contribution: "MERCY", Matthias Glasner, for the cinematography
Alfred P. Bauer Prize: "CAESAR MUST DIE", Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani
FIPRESCI Prize: "BARBARA", Christian Petzold

With Mike Leigh as president of the jury this year I could see "Just the Wind" triumphing over the favoured "Tabu" and "War Witch" - after all Leigh's favourite film is "The Tree of Wooden Clogs" iirc.

The Berlin Awards are in:

GOLDEN BEAR ... "Caesar Must Die" (Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani)
JURY PRIZE ... "Just the Wind" (Fliegauf Benedek)
SPECIAL SILVER BEAR ... "Sister" (Ursula Meier)
BEST DIRECTOR ... Christien Petzold ("Barbara")
BEST ACTOR ... Mikkel Folsgaard ("A Royal Affair")
BEST ACTRESS ... Rachel Mwanza ("War Witch")
BEST SCRIPT ... "A Royal Affair"
OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT ... "White Deer Plain" (for the photography)
ALFRED BAUER PRIZE ... "Tabu"

My friend Claudia Llosa (The milk of sorrow, Golden Bear winner and Oscar nominee) has won again in Berlin, but this time with her short film Loxoro , Teddy Bear for best short.

I've been really sick so I've been bored with some time on my hands - I used it to make predictions for Cannes In Comp and UCR as well as the Venice competition. No guts no glory!

Cannes In Competition:

“A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” -- Roy Andersson
“Beyond the Hills” -- Cristian Mungiu
“Big House” -- Matteo Garrone
“Cosmopolis” -- David Cronenberg
“Gebo and the Shadow” -- Manoel de Oliveira
“Hand in Hand” -- Valérie Donzelli
“Holly Motors” -- Leos Carax
“In Another Country” -- Hong Sang-soo
“Laurence Anyways” -- Xavier Dolan
“Like Someone in Love” -- Abbas Kiarostami
“Love” -- Michael Haneke
“Mishima” -- Kōji Wakamatsu
“On the Road” -- Walter Salles
“Rust and Bone” -- Jacques Audiard
“Stoker” -- Park Chan-wook
“The Angels’ Share” -- Ken Loach
“The Land of Hope” -- Sion Sono
“The Place Beyond the Pines” -- Derek Cianfrance
“White Elephant” -- Pablo Trapero
“You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet” -- Alain Resnais

Cannes Un Certain Regard:

“Beasts of the Southern Wild” -- Benh Zeitlin
“Berberian Sound Studio” -- Peter Strickland
“Circles” -- Srdan Golubović
“Dream of Silence” -- Jaime Rosales
“Goltzius and the Pelican Company” -- Peter Greenaway
“Heli” -- Amat Escalante
“In the Fog” -- Sergei Loznitsa
“J’enrage de son absence” -- Sandrine Bonnaire
“Journal de France” -- Raymond Depardon
“Mala” -- Adrián Caetano
“No” -- Pablo Larraín
“Piazza Fontana” -- Marco Tullio Giordana
“Rhinos Season” -- Bahman Ghobadi
“The Attack” -- Ziad Doueiri
“The Big Night” -- Gustave de Kervern & Benoît Delépine
“The Broken Circle Breakdown” -- Felix van Groeningen
“The Inheritance” -- Hiam Abbass
“The Last Supper” -- Lu Chuan
“The Story of My Death” -- Albert Serra
“The Taste of Money” -- Im Sang-soo
“Tied” -- Hélène Fillières

Venice In Competition:

“After the Battle” -- Yousry Nasrallah
“Anna Karenina” -- Joe Wright
“Blind Watching” -- Andrzej Jakimowski
“Drug War” -- Johnnie To
“Foxfire” -- Laurent Cantet
“Gravity” -- Alfonso Cuarón
“In the House” -- François Ozon
“Inori” -- Pedro González-Rubio
“Life of Pi” -- Ang Lee
“Killing Them Softly” -- Andrew Dominik
“Me and You” -- Bernardo Bertolucci
“Only God Forgives” -- Nicolas Winding Refn
“Passion” -- Brian de Palma
“Something in the Air” -- Olivier Assayas
“The Lookout” -- Michele Placido
“The Patience Stone” -- Atiq Rahimi
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” -- Mira Nair
“Twice Born” -- Sergio Castellitto
“Under the Skin” -- Jonathan Glazer
“Untitled Ramin Bahrani Film” -- Ramin Bahrani
“When Day Breaks” -- Goran Paskaljević
“Winds” -- Selim Evci

Runs April 25-May 2. Official site is here: http://www.iffboston.org/. New films by Andrea Arnold, Todd Solondz, Guy Maddin, and Hirokazu Kore-eda, plus a bunch more. I'm planning to check out Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Kore-eda's I Wish, Madden's Keyhole, VHS (dir. Ti West, Joe Swanberg, et al.), Nobody Walks (Ry Russo Young), The Loneliest Planet (dir. Julia Loktev), Think of Me (dir. Bryan Wizemann), and Polisse (dir. Maiwenn). This will be my first time at the festival and I'm looking forward to it.

Any other Boston-area folks (or out-of-towners) planning to attend this?

I highly recommend Mark Jackson's Without. It's totally awesome.

I've never been excited about the Tribeca Film Festival, even after moving to NYC. It's still a solid showcase for documentaries, but unless you work in the business and use it to shmooze, I can't see any cinephile getting excited over its usual slate of narrative films. (Their program of shorts are often abysmal.)

I always get dragged to it by people who really want to see something at Tribeca. Stephen Holden's made a few recommendations. Any others, particularly docs?

I'll only be able to make it sporadically, sadly, since I'll have to split time with school, my grunt job, and new release screenings. But I'll be pissed if I miss WUTHERING or the Kore-eda.

It is not a documentary but since Michael Winterbottom's Trishna has come up here and in the Boston Film Festival thread it might be worth noting that this is an India-set adaptation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Though I haven't seen it yet, the most worrying aspect of the film from what I have read about it is that it has apparently combined the two main male characters of Angel and Alec into one role! I have to admit that I'm curious to see how exactly that will work out!

Edwin's Postcards from the Zoo definitely

I have edited the master post with the Cannes In Competition selection.

Ugh. Well, at least they were (more or less) hunting the deer, plus they actually ate them, or at least one of them, but I can't believe no one was on top of the legalities of 1) having no license and 2) hunting out-of-season.

The first 10 films in the Shanghai festival selection have been announced. Jean-Jacques Annaud is president of the Jury.

A bit sad to see this festival continue to struggle for relevance, with leftovers such as the horribly-received Berlinale pic "I, Anna" getting a slot. I don't think any of these films except for the Biju are world premieres.

I assume the remaining films in selection will be homegrown pics, which are usually the reason to keep an eye on this festival.

Main post has been updated with this information.

All of the festivals will be taking place this year (Cairo was cancelled last year).

Have updated dates for some of the festivals. Apichatpong Weerasethakul will be Jury president for Locarno this year.

Some Moscow titles have also been announced, as well as two jury members.

The Shanghai Film Festival continues to stumble along. Though China's rise assures that they can continue to attract at least one big name for the jury.
I think the main purpose at this point is really the linked media market and television program buying. That and "lifting the country’s soft power" as the SIFF site chooses to put.

Anyway, a synopsis for each of the 10 competition films can be found here, with a little write-up on the directors.
Funny, I, Anna was one of the two that sounded possibly interesting, along with the Hungarian film Isztambul. Though it's hard to tell too much from a 3 or 4 sentence summary.

Here's the list of 10 films competing for the New Asian Talent Award
It's good to see two Indian films here and one in the main competition.
I'm not sure about inclusion in other years, but China often has a simmering distrust of India, and everything official here has a political component.

Cannes winners added to main post. After Berlin's snubbing of "Tabu" Cannes keeps up the tradition of completely shutting out its biggest critical success from the awards ceremony.

Now that Cannes is finished I’m gonna geek out and make my totally NGNG 3-month-in-advance predictions for the Venice Competition lineup:

ANNA KARENINA - Joe Wright (UK)
DRUG WAR - Johnnie To (Hong Kong)
FOXFIRE - Laurent Cantet (France)
GEBO AND THE SHADOW - Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal)
GOLTZIUS AND THE PELICAN COMPANY - Peter Greenaway (UK)
GRAVITY - Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico)
HAND IN HAND - Valérie Donzelli (France)
IN THE HOUSE - François Ozon (France)
LIFE OF PI - Ang Lee (Taiwan)
ONLY GOD FORGIVES - Nicolas Winding Refn (Denmark)
PASSION - Brian de Palma (USA)
PIETA - Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)
SOMETHING IN THE AIR - Olivier Assayas (France)
STOKER - Park Chan-wook (South Korea)
THE ATTACK - Ziad Doueiri (Lebanon)
THE LAND OF HOPE - Sion Sono (Japan)
THE LOOKOUT - Michele Placido (Italy)
THE PATIENCE STONE - Atiq Rahimi (Afghanistan)
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES - Derek Cianfrance (USA)
THE STORY OF MY DEATH - Albert Serra (Portugal)
TWICE BORN - Sergio Castellitto (Italy)
UNDER THE SKIN - Jonathan Glazer (UK)
WHEN DAY BREAKS - Goran Paskaljević (Serbia)

puxzkkx wrote:Now that Cannes is finished I’m gonna geek out and make my totally NGNG 3-month-in-advance predictions for the Venice Competition lineup:

GRAVITY - Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico)
LIFE OF PI - Ang Lee (Taiwan)

Looks like mostly plausible guesses, but I can't imagine the effects work on these two being finished in time. It sounds like Gravity has a long ways to go. They are both mega-budgeted, effects-heavy American studio films, so they may forgo the festival circuit altogether.

Others that seem likely to turn up somewhere on the fall festival circuit are Low Life (James Gray), The Impossible (Juan Antonio Bayona), and The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola). Malick's always a wild card too.

EDIT: The new director of the fest is claiming he expects to get the Malick and P.T. Anderson films.

What are your thoughts on Moscow international film festival?
Competition programm is on this link http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34 ... s/?id=4136" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks for reminding me! I actually wrote the Competition selection out in my master list the other day but completely forgot to post it here. I'll do that now.

I don't know how I feel about this Biennale news... Venice without a bunch of obscure, badly-reviewed filler and superfluous Oscarbait just isn't Venice.

I have updated with that information as well as the completed Shanghai lineup & jury* and the completed Karlovy Vary lineup.

* Heather Graham is a member!

puxzkkx wrote:Thanks for reminding me! I actually wrote the Competition selection out in my master list the other day but completely forgot to post it here. I'll do that now.

I don't know how I feel about this Biennale news... Venice without a bunch of obscure, badly-reviewed filler and superfluous Oscarbait just isn't Venice.

Thank you. Last year you guessed the winner, and i went to watch the movie during the festival. This year I plan to visit a couple of competition films. So I need some directives on films that are worth watching.