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Cannes Film Festival 2012 starts this week and goes on for 11 glamour filled days! Cannes Festival, after 65 years, is still a mecca for film lovers and critics because of the high calibre of films chosen. In addition to the high quality films chosen, it another event for celebrities to get glammed up to [...]

  The Gulf Film Festival kicked off yesterday in Grand Cinemas at Festival City, Dubai, with a screening of Kuwaiti film Tora Bora, a film that tells the story of a young man’s decision to join extremist forces in Afghanistan. This brings some well-deserved attention to the burgeoning industry that is Arab and Gulf Cinema. The [...]

Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, who has partnered with YouTube to bring you the worlds best short film competition, Your Film Festival, has just reported the addition of Oscar Nominee Michael Fassbender to the project. Fassbender will serve as a competition film juror in Venice and co-executive producer of the winner’s next [...]

After ten slightly tumultuous days, the Sundance Film Festival is over for another year, with around 30 of its participating films now snapped up for distribution. Perhaps the festival’s organisers are breathing a sigh of relief now that it’s over and done – it’s been widely reported that this year’s festival had both a grim [...]

Last night the 55th annual BFI London Film Festival kicked off with the first showing of Jude Law’s new film, 360.

The BFI Festival showcases the best of world cinema to champion creativity, originality, vision and imagination, and presents the finest contemporary international cinema from both established and emerging film-makers.