Tickets are now on sale for more than 240 films from over 50 countries that will be screening between 21st March and 6th April and there's some pretty exciting stuff lined up.... More >>

I am pleased to announce the publication of Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities, edited by Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung, published by University of St. Andrews Film Studies in conjunction with their Dynamics of World... More >>

[Some of you might have noticed the banner ads here on Twitch for San Francisco's International Asian American Film Festival and our thanks go out to Michael Hawley for providing the Twitch readership a preview of the upcoming line-up.]... More >>

[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for offering his preview of SF IndieFest 2010 to the Twitch readership.] The 12th edition of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival--better known as SF IndieFest--takes over the Roxie Theater for two weeks starting... More >>

After all the love on the festival circuit, I am surprised not to see Police, Adjective on the final short list for the Best Foreign Language Film nominees.  AMPAS has narrowed it down to nine, with further pruning to...

Israeli filmmaker, Ari Folman made a huge impact in 2008 with his meditative animated war doc WALTZ WITH BASHIR. A film that many feel was robbed at Oscar time.About this time last year Folman announced he was going to adapt...

A FIPRESCI award-winner, an Oscar® candidate and seven U.S. premieres highlight The Global Film Initiative's upcoming Global Lens 2010 film series. As announced late last week, 10 award-winning narrative feature films from Algeria, China, India, Iran, Mexico, Peru, Serbia, South... More >>

Simone Bitton's Rachel took the bullet for Yoav Shamir's Hashmatsa / Defamation (2009), which I would have predicted to be the target of outrage at the 29th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF). By the time Defamation finally screened,... More >>

A former Bond girl in a female driven action film?  From Israel?  That's exactly what director Danny Lerner has delivered with Kirot.  Lerner's sophomore picture had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and stars former Bond...

[Our thanks to regular reader Agent Wax for sending in the following review from the Singapore Animation Nation Festival.]In many ways, this is the hardest review I've ever sat down and committed myself to writing. I regret watching Ari...