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Fifteen years ago, the Oak Cliff Film Festival set out to do something different.

The Oscar-qualifying festival has closed international submissions for its 43rd edition, attracting thousands of fiction, documentary, animation and experimental shorts from around the world.

British short films and co-productions selected for the Greek festival’s international programmes may now gain a route towards BAFTA eligibility, subject to the awards body’s remaining rules.

The 2026 Venice Film Festival has unveiled a programme with a stronger focus on independent and auteur-driven cinema, featuring fewer films from major Hollywood studios than in recent years. Despite that, organisers expect another star-studded edition when the festival runs from 2 to 12 September.

Florian Zeller’s thriller Bunker, Martin McDonagh’s black comedy Wild Horse Nine and Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Loveare among the films set to world premiere on the Lido at the Venice Film Festival, running September 2-12.

The 80th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will take place from Tuesday, May 11 to Saturday, May 22 in 2027.

SAN ANTONIO – Filmmakers and movie fans from around the world will gather in the Alamo City later this month as the San Antonio Film Festival returns for its annual celebration of independent cinema.

Marina DE TAVIRA, Daniela MARÍN NAVARRO, Mariangel VILLEGAS in SIEMPRE SOY TU ANIMAL MATERNOdirected by Valentina MAUREL 

Every independent filmmaker who gets into a festival faces the same math. A publicist runs a few thousand dollars. Press kits, social ads, after parties, travel for the team, and more rack up costs fast. For a single festival, expenses can run from a few hundred dollars to north of twenty thousand. The assumption underneath…

Myanmar romantic drama Fruit Gatheringwon the Grand Prix Crystal Globe, worth $25,000, at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), which wrapped its 2026 edition on Saturday, July 11.