The Times BFI London Film Festival hosted the European premiere of Stranger Than Fiction on Friday, at the Odeon West End. In attendance were the stars, Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman, as well as writer Zach Helm and producer Lindsay Doran. Suchandrika Chakrabarti reports from the red carpet...  

A story just in from Macedonia about the third AsterFest, the Macedonian film festival focussed on European work. The awards are shaped like a horsehoe: which "should associate to (sic) gallop, happiness, movie stars, lancer Asteropeus, young Struma etc. In other words, the film horseshoe should be a symbol of (the) eternal glow of the documentary values which remain permanently marked…

... is kicking off on 18th October with a screening of The Last King of Scotland, starring Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy and Gillian Anderson.   Apart from that, the Festival is 50 years old this year and so the 50 Screens event is going to take place in celebration on Sunday 29th October at 8:30pm. A surprise film will be showing in 50 venues across London, ranging from a closed…

New strands for spiritual cinema, human rights & music documentary Leeds International Film Festival, the UK's largest regional film festival unveiled today a mouth-wateringly rich programme for 2006, its 20th year. Its a festival genuinely with something for everyone, whether you are looking for films to bombast your senses with gore, to lift you up and beyond the everyday int…

Wednesday sees the opening of the 14th Raindance Film Festival, with the Tony Grisoni-penned conjoined twin punk film Brothers of the Head. Other festival highlights include a Stanley Kubrick retrospective, a music documentary filmed a few days before Johnny Ramone's death, discussion panels and the infamous Live!Ammunition! pitching event.     

The programme for Africa in Motion (AiM), the first Edinburgh African film festival, has just been launched. AiM is taking place from 20-29 October 2006 at Filmhouse cinema.   The inaugural AiM festival presents a "best of" selection of more than two dozen African films, including some of the most significant African classics; a number of "los…

"People continued coming to the cinema the next day, even though war had started," With much of the city in ruins, many would have expected the Beirut Film Festival to cancel its 2006 edition. Yet, now, more than ever, the organisers feel they need to show that Beirut's cultural life will not stop, that life goes on. The resilience was reflected during the…

London Film Festival, the UK's largest film event, on Thursday unveiled a 312 film lineup for its 50th anniversary year. 4 World premieres, 32 European and 123 UK premieres include the latest films from Lars von Trier (The Boss of It All), Anthoney Minghella (Breaking and Entering), Phillip Noyce (Catch a Fire), Penny Woolcock (Mischief Night), Nanni Moretti (The Caiman) and Mira Nair (T…

Oliver Stone - in Venice to promote World Trade Centre has singled out Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down as films that "worshipped the machinery of war". Starring Nicolas Cage, it tells the story of two policemen who were pulled from the rubble of the Twin Towers after the 11 September 2001 attacks.The two officers, Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, joined Stone in Venice alon…