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The awards were held on the closing night of the first Hungarian Motion Picture Festival (Hmpf).

Balázs Krasznahorkai’s Ravine was named best feature film at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, held at Balatonfüred’s Anna Grand Hotel on Saturday night as the closing event of the first Hungarian Motion Picture Festival.

Krasznahorkai’s feature debut had previously been shown this year at the Sofia International Film Festival and the Goa International Film Festival, whilst lead Levente Molnár picked up the best male actor award at the CineFantasy festival in Sao Paulo last month.

The story revolves around a Hungarian obstetrician and soon-to-be father,...

Skills Review

The British Film Institute (BFI), in collaboration with skills body ScreenSkills and other industry bodies, has launched a strategic review designed to develop long-term solutions to tackle the current and emerging skills needs of the screen industries. The review will address the issues of improving inclusion of people from underrepresented groups, and the imbalance between London and the southeast of England, which are thriving, and other parts of the U.K.

The focus of the review is film and high-end television production, and its scope is across the entire talent development pipeline, from secondary education, further and higher education through to vocational training, apprenticeships and continuing professional development.

The U.K. Skills Review will be trialed through pilots in 2022-23.

BFI chief executive Ben Roberts said, “Future proofing the industry’s skills is one of our key strategic priorities. This review will help us to stay ahead of...

Titles include Anja Kofmel’s feature debut ’Chris The Swiss’.

Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 10-17) has announced the programme for its Dealing With The Past selection, with titles including Romania’s 2018 foreign language Oscar entry I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians.

Dealing With The Past showcases films that tackle difficult events from recent history in the former Yugoslavia. Subjects include unsolved war crimes, ethnic hatred and resurgent nationalism.

This year’s programme has expanded to include experiences from Romania and Slovakia, with a timespan from the Second World War to the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia.

The latest edition of Toronto’s mighty Images Festival will unspool on April 1-10. The full lineup of films screening at this event is listed below and, even though that looks quite extensive as it is, it’s only a small portion of everything that’s going on during the entire event.

In addition to film screenings, Images has partnered with 15 galleries and museums across the greater Toronto area to display 32 media art installations by both Canadian and international artists. Plus, there will be eight live performances that blur the edges of cinema, sound, music and installations. And, on top of all that, there will be several panel discussions with artists and other media folk, parties, award ceremonies, tours and more. This is more art and film than should be allowed in any one city, yet Images manages to squeeze it all in into just 10 days somehow.

The film lineup...