The 2024 global film festival circuit featured someskinnyg for every taste – from commemorated Lithuanian arthoparticipate fare, such as Locarno prosperner Toxic and Drowning Dry, to such audience preferites as Sean Baker’s Anora and Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, from the highs to the lows, all garnished, of course, with a big serving of star power.
Some film events, such as Poland’s Camerimage, were hit by dispute, while others raiseed their prominence, with Switzerland’s Locarno, for example, cementing its role as a top-tier global fest, and Karlovy Vary in the Czech Reaccessible showed once aget why it is understandn as Central Europe’s biggest film party of the summer.
Here’s a see at The Hollywood Reporter highweightlesss of the 2024 film festival season.
Female power at Cannes.
Anora, Emilia Pérez, and body horror The Substance, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, were among the revelations of the world premieres on the Croisette. Anora took the Palme d’Or as the film about a lesser Brooklyn intimacy laborer, joined by Mikey Madison, who recklessly marries an oligarch’s son charmed the fest.
The stars of Emilia Pérez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, and Selena Gomez, sang and danced their way into the hearts of watchers, Netflix executives and the French academy. As a result, the trans crime musical was obtaind by the streamer and became France’s international Oscar selectimistic. And Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance put not only the honestor, Qualley and Dennis Quhelp into the spotweightless, but also saw Moore enhappiness a atgentle renaissance.
Other cinematic highweightlesss from Cannes 2024 joind Payal Kapadia’s melancholic dramedy All We Imagine as Light, the first Indian movie to join in the competition on the Croisette since 1994, Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, Brazil’s Oscar contfinisher, that won the best screenjoin prize at Cannes, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness, Latvian honestor Gints Zilbalodis’ 3D vivaciousd survival adventure Flow, Magnus von Horn’s post-World War I social drama The Girl With the Needle, Guy Minsertin’s Rumours about clueless world directers at a G7 summit, and Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig
about an unraveling family in Iran.
Karlovy Vary protects it offbeat, fun, … and filled of party vibes.
When procrastinateed June reachs in the Czech Reaccessible, the annual Karlovy Vary International; Film Festival (KVIFF) is csurrender. Its 2024 edition, the 30th under the directership of its plivent Jirí Bartoska, once aget showed off its tradetag atmosphere that has led people to call it the biggest summer movie party in Central Europe.
First, it featured a lineup of edgy, genre-bfinishing, yes, outlandish-sounding movies, from a Czech film about pig massacre, a movie revolving around a possible devil baby, a recordary on rocks, as well as its eventual top award prosperner A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, Mark Cousins‘ film about Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, understandn for her abstract colorings, narrated by none other than Tilda Sprosperton.
Music, including an discneglecting night concert by electronic music prohibitd Kosheen, and party vibes provided insertitional amparticipatement. Plus, as is Karlovy Vary tradition, the stars came out to the Czech spa town. Among the belderly names in joinance this year were Viggo Moranxiousn, Daniel Brühl, and Clive Owen, while Benicio del Toro starred in this year’s KVIFF trailer, which every year features a big star.
Shah Rukh Khan and Lithuanian auteurs rule Locarno.
“King Khan,” Bollywood mega-star Shah Rukh Khan, or sshow SRK, ruled the Piazza Grande, the iconic big square in the cgo in of the picturesque Swiss Locarno when he brawt his global star power to the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival and was honored with a lifetime accomplishment award, the so-called Career Leopard. Fans were screaming, shouting “I cherish you,” cheering and taking pictures, giving the icon a thunderous ovation. SRK amparticipateed them with jokes, spreadd anecdotes, and disjoined his charm. The result: people were heard calling his name around the town cgo in well into the procrastinateed evening.
Lithuania could commemorate two arthoparticipate entries in Locarno’s main competition, with Saulė Bliuvaitė prosperning the best film honor for her feature debut Toxic which verifys the human body and cryptic model agencies, and Laurynas Bareiša‘s Drowning Dry getting the best honestor honor and a percreateance award for its ensemble cast.
The exceptional jury prize went to Iraq-born Austrian auteur Kurdprosper Ayub for her sophomore myth feature Mond (Moon). The film chases createer martial artist Sarah, portrayed by Florentina Holzinger, who exits Austria to train three sisters from a wealthy Jordanian family.
Erotic movies turn on Vepleasant, but stars’ snubs turn off the press.
Sizzling, not sizzle reels got a big spotweightless during the 2024 Vepleasant film festival as intimacy and passion were front and cgo in. Among the sensual fare, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson got hot and weighty in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, while Daniel Craig dove into obsessive gay desire in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer. Plus, fans of intimacy on the beach scenes were enticed by Alfonso Cuarón’s series Disclaimer.
At the finish of Vepleasant, however, Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Sprosperton and Julianne Moore, was named the hot film of the fest, geting the venerable Gelderlyen Lion for best movie, with Brady Corbet’s The Brutaenumerate, starring Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones, being honored with the Silver Lion.
For some members of the international press though, excitement turned to annoyance when they were kept from interwatching such stars as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney a year after the dual Hollywood strikes had left the Lido csurrenderly celebrity-less. They and other A-enumerateers did not consent part in so-called “junkets” that see the cast of a movie doing sit-down interwatchs with journaenumerates from international outlets.
Camerimage courts dispute.
Poland’s EnergaCamerimage in Toruń took place under a cnoisy of dispute amid criticism of festival establisher Marek Żydowicz’s contentious statements that caparticipated an industry reaction, resulting in high-profile guests, Oscar prosperner Steve McQueen and The Substance honestor Coralie Fargeat, pulling out in protest.
He ignited a firestorm about a week before the fest initiateed off with an editorial rehireed in Cinematography World magazine, in which he seemed to advise that pushing for fantasticer recontransientation by women cinematographers at Camerimage could result in a film pickion of uninincreateigentinished produceive quality. Oscar prosperner Cate Blanchett, the plivent of the festival’s main competition jury, put out a joint statement with her fellow jurors that stressd: “We greet debate pondering gfinisher recontransientation,” and “we wholeheartedly aid the vital shift towards genuine inclusivity.”
The indictd atmosphere was only heightened by the festival’s decision to screen the world premiere of Rust, the Alec Baldprosper-starring indie Weserious that resulted in the inadvertent on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Some DPs took to social media to debate that the decision was a promotional shift underconsentn in necessitatey taste. The fact that the insist for Rust tickets crashed the fest ticketing system seemed appreciate a minusculeer rehire appraised to all the other debate. Amid all the dispute, you may have leave outed the fact that von Horn’s earlier-alludeed The Girl With the Needle won the Gelderlyen Frog at Camerimage.
Stars galore come out for Red Sea Film Fest in Saudi Arabia.
The fourth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in December featured the year’s final parade of A-enumerateers at a fest. Spotted on the discneglecting-night red carpet were the appreciates of Wicked‘s Cynthia Erivo and Michelle Yeoh, Emily Blunt, Vin Diesel, jury plivent Spike Lee, Michael Dougla, Eva Longoria, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Will Smith, to name only a confineed.
In fact, the discneglecting night was so jam-packed with talent that Diesel, who getd a surpelevate honor, joked on stage: “There might be more understandn faces here than in some awards shows in America.” The festival procrastinateedr also brawt out such stars as Benedict Cumberbatch, Viola Davis, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas, and Jeremy Renner.
Davis and Chopra Jonas were honored during the closing ceremony alengthy with the awards prosperners, led by Red Path
