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The European Film Academy has awarded the Andalusian desert the title "Treasure of European Film Culture". The desert, in the Spanish province of Almeria, saw more than 300 films shoot there between the 1950s and 2020, famously including Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western trilogy A Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars M…

Matthijs Wouter Knol, the long-serving director of the Berlin International Film Festival’s European Film Market (EFM), is leaving his post to take the reins at the European Film Academy. Wouter Knol will remain in situ until October 31, with Berlinale management exploring options for his succession. Next year’s EFM…

The 2019 International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) closed yesterday (December 4) with an awards ceremony that saw Kirill Mikhanovsky's English/Russian-language comedy Give Me Liberty named best film in the international competition. A jury presided over by Chinese filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun awarded its best…

UPDATE: The 32 European Film Awards crowned The Favourite with a number of its prizes, even though the film was playing catch-up with last year. Still a lovely evening also bestowed wins on newcomers like Ladj Ly and increasingly promising talent like Céline Sciamma. Best Actor winner Antonio Banderas sent a message…

The European Film Academy has unveiled its nominations for the 32nd European Film Awards with the ceremony to be held December 7 in Berlin. Among the titles to figure in the races, three are tied with four mentions each including Roman Polanski’s An Officer And A Spy, Pedro Almodovar’s Pain And Glory and Marco…

Cannes Film Festival chiefs Pierre Lescure and Thierry Fremaux have named the six titles that will comprise its inaugural 'Film Week' at Hong Kong's K11 Musea in November (12-17). They include three from this year’s Cannes competition: Young Ahmed, which won best director, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, which took best…

After more than five years of detention, and calls from international artists groups and governments, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was freed from a Russian prison today. In what has long been seen as an unjust situation, Sentsov was convicted in 2015 of plotting terrorist attacks and sentenced to 20 years after…

UDPATE: In a typically politically and socially conscious ceremony, the European Film Academy delivered its European Film Awards tonight. In Seville, Spain, Amira Casar hosted the ceremony in what she said was a European climate "resembling the 1930s." It was a post-WW II movie that took the main prizes with Ida Oscar…

Nominations are in for the 31st European Film Awards with previous winner Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War leading the pack. The romance drama won the Best Director prize in Cannes and Pawlikowski is up here for the same nod. Cold War, Poland’s Oscar hopeful this year, is also mentioned in the Best Film, Screenwriting…

Oleg Sentsov, the Ukraine filmmaker who was convicted in 2015 of plotting terrorist attacks and sentenced to 20 years in a Russian prison, is on day 24 of a hunger strike as artists and activists around the world continue to rally for his cause. Supporters demanding Sentsov's release include PEN America and the Europea…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Ruben Ostlund’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Square swept through the European Film Awards tonight in Berlin. The satirical art world drama was named Best European Film and European Comedy among its other wins. This marks the first year that the same film has won both categories since the comedy…

The European Film Academy has set nominees in the Animated Feature Film and Comedy categories for this year's awards. In the European Comedy race are Ruben Ostlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square (Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark) which is also Sweden's Foreign Language Oscar entry; and smash German comedy Welcome To Germa…