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BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival (March 19-30) has unveiled its full line-up, with 56 features across three strands, exploring subjects such as Kenya’s ballroom scene and the appeal of dating apps.

The programme has films and shorts from 41 countries, with six world premiere features. These include Kenyan filmmaker Njoroge Muthoni’s documentaryHow To Live, which explores Nairobi’s vibrant ballroom scene and celebrates queer African joy.

In Yu-jin Lee’s Manok, the owner of a South Korean lesbian bar must return to her small hometown after clashing with the city’s younger queer community.

Buenos Aires-set comedy drama Few...

Carlos Marques-Marcet’s Toronto-winning musical drama They Will Be Dust, will open the 69th edition of the Valladolid International Film Week, also known as the Seminci, on October 18.

The end of life drama starring Alfredo Castro and Angela Molina won the Platform section at TIFF last month.

Valladolid, headed by José Luis Cienfuegos for a second year, is a key launchpad into the Spanish market for local and international films.

There are a total of 22 titles in the running for the festival’s top prize, the Golden Spike that comes with a €70,000 award for the Spanish distributor. The Silver Spike...

Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel (VdR) has revealed the line-up for its 55th edition (April 12-21) which opens with the IDFA- and Göteborg selection As The Tide Comes In by Juan Palacios (and co-directed by Sofie Husum Johannesen).

The full selection includes 128 films, 88 of which are world premieres.

Among the 14 world premieres in international competition is Apple Cider Vinegar from Belgium’s Sofie Benoot whose 2020 documentary Victoria won the Caligari award at Berlinale Forum. Her latest feature is part nature documentary, part philosophical tale beginning with the journey of a kidney stone.

Other world premieres include Swiss titles The...

Huge winners roster marks close of 13th edition which ran November 29-December 3 in Buenos Aires and online.

Fernando Babuy de la Torre’s Peru-Colombia-France family drama Diogenes took the Cine+ Club Award for films in post-production as the hybrid 2021 Ventana Sur came to a close in Buenos Aires.

The award was one of many in a huge awards roster announced on Friday (December 3) that marked the end of the market’s 13th edition and included the Cine + Club Award in Copia Final for Mariano Biasin’s Sublime from Argentina, which like Diogenes means the French distributor that acquires the film...

Fouth edition of co-production sidebar will run in-person and online.

In the run-up to the hybrid 13th edition of Ventana Sur that starts in Buenos Aires later this month, top brass have unveiled the 16 development titles selected for its Proyecta co-production sidebar organised with San Sebastian Film Festival.

Proyecta filmmakers pitch to producers, programmers and sales agents in search of partners to complete financing and international distribution on co-productions between Latin American and Europe.

The fourth edition of Proyecta will run in-person and online and comprises a pitching session by project representatives on November 30 in Buenos Aires followed on December...

Mubi is partnering with L.A. Ola, a showcase of the best contemporary independent cinema from Spain, to show several of their films, including Adrián Orr's Niñato (2017), on Mubi in June and July, 2018.Let me begin by saying that that Niñato is one of my best friends and I really love him and his family. Niñato's way of life represents my generation; or, to put it another way, an ideal of how many people of our age choose to live. He became a father at quite a young age and started a new chapter in his life, officially being an adult. He acquired great responsibilities, but at the same time he wanted to keep living with the same freedom had when he was a teenager. He didn't want to abandon the idea of what he wanted or dreamt to be. He hasn't given up on his dream—he's still making music,...

Pedro Almodóvar has revealed his favorite movie of 2017, and it’s unsurprisingly “Call Me By Your Name.” Naturally one of the great masters of cinematic emotion was going to choose the year’s most sensual cinematic romance as 2017’s best. It’s a match made in movie heaven.

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Almodóvar participated in this year’s end-of-the-year poll by Spanish film website Otros Cines Europa. The website asked 65 Spanish filmmakers to name their favorite films of 2017, and responses came in from “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” director J.A. Boyena (“The Lost City of Z”), Xacio Baño (“Bpm Beats Per Minute”), and Adrián Orr (“Sieranevada”), among many others.

The “Julieta” filmmaker says he picked Luca Guadagnino’s romance as the year’s best film because of how viscerally it makes beauty out of everything on camera.

An intimate and compassionate documentary take on the struggles of a wannabe Spanish rap singer who also happens to be the father of three small children, Adrian Orr’s full-length debut Ninato has much of the freshness of lived experience, but also some of its tedium. Invited along with his camera into the Ransanz family -- whom he worked with previously on the 2013 short Good Day, Resistance -- Orr faithfully records their domestic day-to-day life while briefly and tellingly illuminating unsuspected depths. With his Bafici award, Orr adds his name to a list of Spanish film-makers, among them Luis Lopez Carrasco...

Adrian Orr's Niñato topped the 19th edition of the Buenos Aires Film Festival (Bafici), which announced on Saturday the awards of its five competitions. The Spanish film, which premiered at the Visions du Réel film festival, depicts a young unemployed single father and occasional rapper who takes care of his child while living with with his parents.

Spain's independent cinema was a big winner at Bafici: Barcelona-born Carla Simón won best director honors for her debut feature Summer 1993, while the Avant Garde and Genre competition delivered a special mention for Galician filmmaker Oliver Laxe's Mimosas and a shared best short...