BritDoc 2006 26th-28th July Keble College, Oxford A portrait of the Iraq war made by soldiers on the frontline, life in a former concentration camp, the ludicrous attempts to assassinate the president of Cuba and an unflinching chronicle of a year of suicides from San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge - these are among the 20 feature-length documentary films competing in the ina…

  Summer of Free Films With Your Sunday Pint In Islington The Angel Film Festival has announced its shortlist for its upcoming four Sundays of showings. Fifty short films have been selected from 600 submissions, to be shown in three pubs across Islington. The final 50 comprise an eclectic mix of genres and methods, ranging from up-and-coming film-makers, making their film festival debuts…

Following this year's 60th Edinburgh Film Festival (yes, that's the longest continuosly running film festival in the world), Shetland-born Hannah McGill -  film critic for Scottish newspaper The Herald - will be taking over, it was announced Wednesday. Australian Shane Danielson, who has been running the festival for the five years since Lizzie Franke's departure in 2000…

Future Shorts, of Rock'n'Roll Cinema fame, is taking its July selection to the UK's first outdoor film festival on 22nd-23rd July 2006...

  The Battle Of Cable Street Will Relive 70 Years On A film director and animator from London has won the top prize in this year's UK Jewish Film Festival's Short Film Fund Competition. Yoav Segal won a £15,000 grant which he will used to produce his ten-minute film The Battle Of Cable Street. The film, which will blend live action with animation, focuses on the…

  The 5th Hull International Short Film Festival has put out a call for dedicated and responsible people to help with this year's film festival running from the 27th Sept - 1st Oct 2006. As well as the festival, Hull Film will be also be running the Trailers programme, with commissioned works screening in shipping containers scattered about the city.

  The EIFF Programme for 2006 has launched and the 60th incarnation of the world's longest continually running film festival promises to be exceptional. There are treats for cineastes on every one of the 76 pages, ranging from the host of highly anticipated World Premieres and Gala screenings, through the star-studded Reel Life line-up, to the staggering diversity of international ci…

  The first Saudi Arabian film festival opened in the Red Sea city of Jeddah this week, in an ultra-conservative country where the silver screen is so controversial that the word "cinema" does not even get a mention in the title. "The Jeddah Visual Show Festival" started on Wednesday night screening two hours of home-grown short films. They will be screened three time…

  British TV talent is on course for success at the Emmy awards after two dramas  between them earned a total of 23 nominations. Elizabeth I, the Channel 4 period drama starring Helen Mirren, scooped 13 nominations, including best actress in a mini-series for its leading lady. The BBC was also recognised for its adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, nominated in ten catego…