Sarajevo Opens Film Festival
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Sarajevo opened its annual film festival with the help of such guests as John Malkovich, Mike Leigh and Gerard Depardieu.
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The Venice Film Festival opened its 75th-anniversary edition on Wednesday with a cascade of stars.
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Home-grown films will bring a foreign feel to this year's Toronto International Film Festival, as Canadian entries include a Russian mob thriller set in London, a look into the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and a search for heavy-metal music in Iraq.
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A mix of big Hollywood productions and  arty European movies will mark Rome's first international film  festival next month, organizers said on Tuesday as they played  down rivalry with Venice's venerable film contest.
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Stars arrive for the European Film Awards, being held in eastern Europe for the first time.
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A film directed by the man behind the popular Baghdad Blogger is showing at the Rotterdam Festival.
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The 28th Cairo International Film Festival, the biggest in the Middle East, is due to open Tuesday with US and British films excluded from competition for "technical" reasons, organisers said.
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The Toronto International Film Festival  opened on Thursday with drama &quot;Fugitive Pieces&quot; telling a  poetic tale that asks audiences to find hope even when faced  with atrocities of war.
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A black comedy by the former Bosnian Serb leader suspected of war crimes is to be performed in Belgrade.
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Music comes to the movies at the Berlin  Film Festival this year, with the Rolling Stones and Madonna  expected on the red carpet and a heavy metal band from Baghdad  banging heads on the big screen.
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A Turkish film about fear overwhelming a true believer when he is caught up in religious corruption has been chosen as the best movie at the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival.
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Film festivals pride themselves on  discovering cinematic gems from around the world that the  public would never see otherwise.
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Politics, genocide and animal cruelty will share the spotlight with Hollywood glamour when the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off its 29th edition on Thursday
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Martin Scorsese's documentary on veteran British rock band the Rolling Stones will open the Berlin Film Festival this year, organizers said on Tuesday, with the Oscar-winning director and the band making an appearance.
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Sarajevo authorities will name a street after Susan Sontag, who helped the city's residents during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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A film about a Scottish doctor's time with former dictator Idi Amin makes its world premiere at the Toronto festival.
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Politics, genocide and animal cruelty will share the spotlight with Hollywood glamour when the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off its 29th edition on Thursday.