Amid the big-budget Hollywood sequels jockeying for position, this year’s awards race has a sizable contingent of contenders from overseas, including both foreign-made films and co-productions. The pack is led by indie animation mainstay GKids, but Netflix has also entered the fray as a distribution partner and entries from China are slipping into the mix. [...]I don’t usually get starstruck.
Documentary Film Festival. A pioneer of the “Romanian New Wave” movement, Puiu won the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes for his film [...]Are Eastern European films under-represented at Western European film festivals? Concern that this might be the case prompted Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival to carry out research this year to find out how many documentary films from Eastern Europe made it into Western festivals, and vice versa. Unveiling the study at Ji.