French actress Marion Cotillard will preside over the jury for the 2026 Marrakech International Film Festival (November 20-28).

Paola Malanga is the artistic director of the Rome Film Fest, which kicks off on October 13 with the world premiere of The Sound of Something New (Il Rumore Delle Cose Nuove) by Paolo Genovese, the director of the local hit Perfect Strangers.

Bulgarian filmmaker Ina Sotirova has won the Best Emerging Filmmaker award at the inaugural Caribbean Film Awards, held on 10 October in Wilmington, USA.

Alexandra Matthaiou travels to Cannes with her short film Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection).

Entries for the 2027 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each title on this page.

Kazakhstan hosted the Astana AI Film Festival (AAIFF) for the first time, attracting 8,067 entries from 125 countries and becoming the world’s largest international competition for AI-generated films, Qazinform News Agency reports.