Meet Film Directors and lead actors at the 5th DLA Film Festival  - Film Directors: Arturo Ripstein (pictured), Claudia Llosa, Emilio Maillé and Jorge Durán 5th DISCOVERING LATIN AMERICA FILM FESTIVAL 23 November- 3 December, 2006 Whether you are an enthusiastic film-lover, or keen to awaken your senses to the cultural diversity that Latin American cinema has…

Belgium film I Don't Care if Tomorrow Never Comes, from Guillaume Malandrin, has picked up the Golden Owl at the 20th Leeds International Film Festival, with a Special Mention going to Human Film's Ahlaam. The Silver Melies Award for UK talent rewarded Billy O Brien's horror Isolation while Ed Boase's Home Video picked up the short film prize. The Louis Le Prince short film aw…

Giving in to popular demand, Leeds Film Festival is giving some of the favourites of the festival a second screening on the 12 November. Films including Japanese animation Paprikia, and Czech comedy favourite Wrong Side Up  will screen at the Leeds City Art Gallery or Vue at the Light Screen 5. 

A quartet of premieres Thursday night kicked off the 20th Leeds International Film Festival Venus from Notting Hill's Roger Michell with a Hanif Kureshi script stood face to face with Penny Woolcock's collaboration with the brains behind Shameless, Mischief Night. Meanwhile, the meditiative Into Great Silence explored the world of a Carthusian Order of monks in a French Alps monast…

  Kate Winslet's latest film, Little Children, premiered at The London Film Festival last night.  She plays Sarah, a mother who starts an affair, with disastrous results.  Suchandrika Chakrabarti reports...     The lady herself graced the red carpet with her presence, sending the shrieking crowd wild... it was quite hard to hear her comments, but h…

The 9th British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), set to run November 29th at the Hammersmith Palais, has announced its 2006 nominations. Formed by Elliot Grove in 1998 off the back of Raindance, the awards - now under the newly appointed directorship of Johanna von Fischer and Tessa Collinson - form one of the first dates in the ever more crowded awards calendar This year’s jury, whi…

The cast of Shortbus certainly arrived in style for their UK premiere at the London Film Festival on Tuesday - in a pink double decker bus... Suchandrika Chakrabarti reports.  The film has been attracting controversy from the very start, as it was to show the actors actually engaging in sexual activities. Some of the cast have faced very harsh reactions; Sook-Yin Lee, in the lead ro…

A little late in publishing the award winners for the Hull International Short Film Festival, but better late than never. I was lucky enough to visit the festival a few years back (when I first came across Virgil Widrich) and have always held the city in the very highest regard ever since, in spite of many a poll claiming otherwise. If you ever go - check out an awesome all-you-can-eat veggie b…

Swedish film Never Like the First Time! (ALDRIG SOM FÖRSTA GÅNGEN! ) last week picked up the Cork Film Festival Prix UIP award, rounding out the 14 nominations for the UIP European Film Awards short film prize. The film from Jonas Odell animates people's accounts of their first sexual experience and won the Golden Bear in Berlin earlier this year.