2015 AFI FEST - FULL JURY AND AUDIENCE AWARD RESULTS

The AFI Fest is better known as the final festival hotspot for Oscar contenders, whether successful (American Sniper and Selma last year) or less so (By the Sea and Concussion both underwhelming this year), than it is for screening a variety of the year's finest fest fare. But awards are indeed handed out, both by selected juries and by attending audience members, and this year's expansive slate of winners encompasses some of 2015's most acclaimed titles. Check out all those winners below:

New Auteurs Awards

Grand Jury Award
Land and Shade (Cesar Augusto Acevedo)

Special Jury Mention for Direction
Alice Winocour (Disorder)

Special Jury Mention for Screenplay
Lorenzo Vigas (From Afar)

Short Film Awards

Grand Jury Award for Live Action Short
Boys (Isabella Carbonell)

Live Action Short Special Mention for Innovative Storytelling
Rate Me (Fyzal Boulifa)

Live Action Short Special Mention for Nonfiction Filmmaking
The Reagan Shorts - Ronald Reagan Lights the Lights, Ronald Reagan Pardons a Turkey, Maryland Public Television Interviews the Reagans (Pacho Velez)

Grand Jury Award for Animated Short
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)

Animated Short Special Jury Mention for Screenwriting
Teeth (Tom Brown and Daniel Gray)

Animated Short Special Jury Mention for Creative Vision
Manoman (Simon Cartwright)

Audience Awards

World Cinema Audience Award
Landfill Harmonic (Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley and Juliana Penaranda-Loftus)

New Auteurs Audience Award
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erguven)

American Independents Audience Award
James White (Josh Mond)

Breakthrough Audience Award
Ma (Celia Rowlson-Hall)

CHEVALIER WINS LFF TOP PRIZE AS WOMEN DOMINATE AWARDS

Saturday was a triumphant occasion for female filmmakers as the BFI London Film Festival (remember that?) wrapped up its official competition, one day prior to Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs closing the festival. Of the four competitive awards, only one was received by a man (whose film's lead is a woman anyway), and the other four winners were all female. To boot, the BFI Fellowship recipient, who was confirmed prior to the festival, was a woman as well: Cate Blanchett, who had been in attendance for the American Express gala premiere of Carol on Wednesday and was also present for Saturday's special presentation premiere of Truth. The success of women at the awards ceremony aligned perfectly with the 59th BFI LFF's theme of strong women. Details below:

Best Film - Official Competition

Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari)

Sutherland Award for Best First Feature

The Witch (Robert Eggers)

Grierson Award for Best Documentary

Sherpa (Jennifer Peedom)

Best Film - Short Film Competition

An Old Dog's Diary (Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia)

BFI Fellowship

Cate Blanchett

TIFF AWARDS 2015 AS ROOM WINS PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD

The buzz for Lenny Abrahamson's Room keeps on growing, as it beats supposed Oscar frontrunner Spotlight from Thomas McCarthy to win the coveted audience award from the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. McCarthy's film placed third in the voting, which this year was joined by a juried awards slate for the first time in the history of TIFF, this year in its 40th edition. All of the winners detailed below:

Platform Award

Hurt (Alan Zweig)

Best Canadian Feature

Closet Monster (Stephen Dunn)

Best Canadian First Feature

Sleeping Giant (Andrew Cividino)

NETPAC Award for Best Asian Premiere

The Whispering Star (Sono Sion)

FIPRESCI Prize - Special Presentations

Desierto (Jonas Cuaron)

FIPRESCI Prize - Discovery

Eva Nova (Marko Skop)

People's Choice Award

Room (Lenny Abrahamson)

People's Choice Award - Runners-Up

Angry Indian Goddesses (Pan Nalin) - first runner-up

Spotlight (Thomas McCarthy) - second runner-up

Midnight Madness People's Choice Award

Hardcore (Ilya Naishuller)

TIFF Docs People's Choice Award

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (Evgeny Afineevsky)

Best Canadian Short Film

Maman(s) (Maimouna Doucoure)

Overpass (Patrice Laliberte)

VENICE 2015: FROM AFAR IS FIRST LATIN AMERICAN FILM TO WIN GOLDEN LION

History was made yesterday at the prize-giving gala of Venezia 72, as a Latin American jury president handed the Golden Lion out to the first Latin American film in history to win the prestigious title. Lorenzo Vigas' From Afar beat a competition slate that was packed with heavy-hitters, including fellow Latin American title The Clan by Pablo Trapero, upon whom Alfonso Cuaron's jury bestowed the Silver Lion for Best Director. English language titles were not ignored, however, as there were awards for the new films from Cary Fukunaga and Charlie Kaufman. All the details below:

Venezia 72

Golden Lion

From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas)

Grand Jury Prize

Anomalisa (Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman)

Silver Lion for Best Director

Pablo Trapero (The Clan)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

Fabrice Luchini (L'Hermine)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

Valeria Golino (Per Amor Vostro)

Best Screenplay

Christian Vincent (L'Hermine)

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress

Abraham Attah (Beasts of No Nation)

Special Jury Prize

Frenzy (Emin Alper)

Orizzonti

Best Film

Free in Deed (Jake Mahaffy)

Special Jury Prize

Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro)

Best Director

Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader)

Special Prize for Best Actor or Actress

Dominique Leborne (Tempete)

Luigi de Laurentiis Lion of the Future

The Childhood of a Leader (Brady Corbet)

Best Short Film

Belladonna (Dubravka Turic)

Venice Days

Venice Days Award

Early Winter (Michael Rowe)

Europa Cinemas Label Award

As I Open My Eyes (Leyla Bouzid)

Laguna Sud Prize for Best Film

Lolo (Julie Delpy)

Laguna Sud Prize for Best Italian Discovery

Arianna (Carlo Lavagna)

BNL People's Choice Award

As I Open My Eyes (Leyla Bouzid)

Venice Classics

Best Documentary on Cinema

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin (Yves Montmayeur)

Best Restoration

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

FEDEORA Prizes

Best European Film: Venezia 72

Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokurov)

Best Film: Venice Days

Underground Fragrance (Peng Fei)

Best Young Director: Venice Days

Ruchika Oberoi (Island City)

Best Young Actress: Venice Days

Ondina Quadri (Arianna)

Best Film: Critics' Week

Kalo Pothi (Bahadur Bham Min)

Best Director of Photography: Critics' Week

Benthey Dean (Tanna)

Queer Lion
The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)

TELLURIDE 2015 LINEUP!

The 2015 Telluride Film Festival lineup has been released at last! The fest is notoriously secretive about their slate, preferring to screen its titles without advance hype for the more high-profile films that may diminish attendance for the less high-profile ones. And there's as healthy a balance of the two as ever at the 2015 event, which kicks off today (the 4th of September) and runs for four days total, and which will honour filmmakers Danny Boyle, there with Steve Jobs, and Adam Curtis, there with Bitter Lake, and actor Rooney Mara, starring in Carol. All 27 films below:

• 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
• Amazing Grace (Sydney Pollack)
• Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman)
• Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga)
• Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis)
• Black Mass (Scott Cooper)
• Carol (Todd Haynes)
• He Named Me Malala (Davis Guggenheim)
• Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson)
• Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones)
• Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante)
• Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli)
• Mom and Me (Ken Wardrop)
• Only the Dead See the End of War (Bill Guttentag and Michael War)
• Rams (Grimur Hakonarson)
• Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
• Siti (Eddie Cahyono)
• Son of Saul (Nemes Laszlo)
• Spotlight (Thomas McCarthy)
• Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
• Suffragette (Sarah Gavron)
• Taj Mahal (Nicolas Saada)
• Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
• Tikkun (Avishai Sivan)
• Time to Choose (Charles Ferguson)
• Viva (Paddy Breathnach)
• Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (Evgeny Afineevsky)

BFI ANNOUNCES 2015 LONDON FILM FESTIVAL LINEUP

The British Film Institute brings you the 2015 London Film Festival in partnership with American Express. The festival runs from the 7th of October until the 18th. Along with previously mentioned gala premieres for major awards contenders Suffragette and Carol, major gala screenings will be held for Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender, and Truth, with Carol lead and this year's BFI Fellowship recipient Cate Blanchett and Cannes Best Actress joint winner Rooney Mara. The full and extensive list below:

Galas

• The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien) - journey gala
• Beeba Boys (Deepa Mehta) - thrill gala
• A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino) - love gala
• Black Mass (Scott Cooper) - Virgin Atlantic gala
• Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler) - cult gala
• Brand: A Second Coming (Ondi Timoner) - laugh gala
• Brooklyn (John Crowley) - May Fair Hotel gala
• Carol (Todd Haynes) - American Express gala
• The Forbidden Room (Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin) - experimenta special presentation
• Goosebumps (Rob Letterman) - family gala
• He Named Me Malala (Davis Guggenheim) - documentary special presentation
• High Rise (Ben Wheatley) - festival gala
• The Idol (Hany Abu-Assad) - sonic gala
• The Lady in the Van (Nicholas Hytner) - centrepiece gala
• The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) - dare gala
• The Program (Stephen Frears) - debate gala
• Shooting Stars (Anthony Asquith) - archive gala
• Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) - closing night gala
• Suffragette (Sarah Gavron) - opening night gala
• Trumbo (Jay Roach) - Accenture gala
• Truth (James Vanderbilt) - fellowship special presentation

Official Competition

• 11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski)
• Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga)
• Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
• The Daughter (Simon Stone)
• Desierto (Jonas Cuaron)
• Evolution (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
• Office (Johnnie To)
• Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
• Son of Saul (Nemes Laszlo)
• Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
• Tangerine (Sean Baker)
• Very Big Shot (Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya)

After the cut, more competitions and all of the festival's many strands:

2015 TIFF GALAS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS ANNOUNCED

The newest additions to TIFF 2015's already expansive slate have been revealed. Organisers have declared new gala and special presentation titles, including the official closing night film, Paco Cabezas' Mr. Right with Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick and Tim Roth. Alongside the initial wave of 2015 titles, you can check out the films showing in other sidebars here, and the newly-created Platform strand here. All the new screenings are below:

Galas

• Disorder (Alice Winocour)
• Man Down (Dito Montiel)
• Miss You Already (Catherine Hardwicke)
• Mississippi Grind (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck)
• Mr. Right (Paco Cabezas) - closing night film

Special Presentations

• 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
• About Ray (Gaby Dellal)
• Angry Indian Goddesses (Pan Nalin)
• Being Charlie (Rob Reiner)
• Body (Malgorzata Szumowska)
• Equals (Drake Doremus)
• I Saw the Light (Marc Abraham)
• London Fields (Matthew Cullen)
• Ma Ma (Julio Medem)
• The Meddler (Lorene Scarafia)
• Mr. Six (Guan Hu)
• Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erguven)
• My Mother (Nanni Moretti)
• Our Brand Is Crisis (David Gordon Green)
• A Tale of Love and Darkness (Natalie Portman)
• A Tale of Three Cities (Mabel Cheung)
• Truth (James Vanderbilt)
• The Wave (Roar Uthaug)
• The Witch (Robert Eggers)

HONG SANG SOO WINS AT LOCARNO WITH RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN

Hot favourites proved victorious at the Locarno International Film Festival over the weekend. Korea's most prolific arthouse filmmaker Hong Sang Soo picked up his second award from the acclaimed fest, having won the Best Director trophy two years ago for Our Sun Hi, but this time went one better and won the main prize, the Golden Leopard, for Right Now, Wrong Then, which also won lead Jung Jae Young the Best Actor award. The Asian acting winners continued into the Best Actress category, where the win was shared by Happy Hour's ensemble of Kawamura Rira, Kikuchi Hazuki, Mihara Maiko and Tanaka Sachie. The Best Director winner was veteran Polish director Andrzej Zulawski for Cosmos, in what appears to be a grand return to form for the experimental filmmaker. All the winners can be seen below:

Golden Leopard

Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang Soo)

Special Jury Prize

Tikkun (Avishai Sivan)

Best Director

Andrzej Zulawski (Cosmos)

Best Actor

Jung Jae Young (Right Now, Wrong Then)

Best Actress

Kawamura Rira / Kikuchi Hazuki / Mihara Maiko / Tanaka Sachie (Happy Hour)

Special Citation

Shai Goldman (Tikkun)

UPS Public Prize

The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume)

Variety Piazza Grande Award

Summertime (Catherine Corsini)

Cinema of the Present - Best Feature

Thithi (Raam Reddy)

Cinema of the Present - Special Jury Prize

Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce)

Cinema of the Present - Special Commendation

Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)

Swatch Award for Best First Feature

Thithi (Raam Reddy)

Swatch Award - Special Commendation

Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)

Kiev / Moscow. Part 1 (Elena Khoreva)

Paradise (Sina Ataeian Dena)

TIFF GETS IN ON THE GAME WITH JURIED AWARDS - THE PLATFORM SLATE

On one of my reclusive days, the Toronto International Film Festival sneakily announced that it would be holding a juried awards programme at this year's fest. The Platform strand of TIFF 2015 will feature 12 titles - eight of them world premieres - which will compete for a top prize of CAN$25,000. Details of all the films and their directors can be observed below:

• Bang Gang (Eva Husson)
• The Clan (Pablo Trapero)
• French Blood (Patrick Aste)
• Full Contact (David Verbeek)
• High Rise (Ben Wheatley)
• Hurt (Alan Zweig)
• Land of Mine (Martin Zandvliet)
• Looking for Grace (Sue Brooks)
• Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro)
• The Promised Land (He Ping)
• Sky (Fabienne Berthaud)
• The White Knights (Joachim Lafosse)

NEW YORK FILM FEST REVEALS 2015 SLATE

The New York Film Festival has announced which of this summer's most buzzed-about festival hits, and which of this autumn's most anticipated awards contenders, will fill out its 2015 slate. From the 25th of September (my birthday, natch) to the 1st of October, NYFF will feature titles from fest veterans Arnaud Desplechin, Hong Sang Soo and Michael Moore and new directors Thomas Bidegain and Don Cheadle. There'll be galas for Robert Zemeckis' The Walk (opening night), Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs (centrepiece) and Cheadle's Miles Ahead (closing night). Zemeckis' and Cheadle's titles will receive their world premieres, alongside Laura Israel's Don't Blink: Robert Frank and Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. The full lineup can be viewed below:

• Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (Miguel Gomes)
• Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (Miguel Gomes)
• Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes)
• The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
• Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
• Brooklyn (Nick Hornby)
• Carol (Todd Haynes)
• Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain)
• Don't Blink: Robert Frank (Laura Israel)
• Experimenter (Michael Almereyda)
• The Forbidden Room (Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin)
• In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
• Journey to the Shore (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
• The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
• Maggie's Plan (Rebecca Miller)
• The Measure of a Man (Stephane Brize)
• Mia Madre (Nanni Moretti)
• Microbe & Gasoline (Michel Gondry)
• Miles Ahead (Don Cheadle) - closing night gala
• Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhang Ke)
• My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
• No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
• Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang Soo)
• Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) - centrepiece gala
• The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
• The Walk (Robert Zemeckis) - opening night gala
• Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore)

NEW TIFF 2015 LINEUPS: DOCS, MASTERS, MIDNIGHT MADNESS AND VANGUARD

Four new lineups join the official TIFF 2015 selection, as Masters, Midnight Madness, TIFF Docs and Vanguard slates are revealed. Lots of high profile titles among the new additions, as expected; the quality ratio appears to be pretty high, though most of the expected Oscar contenders at Toronto will likely have been announced in the first batch. Full details below:

Masters Programme

• 11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski)
• The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
• Bleak Street (Arturo Ripstein)
• Blood of My Blood (Marco Bellocchio)
• Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokurov)
• In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
• Our Little Sister (Koreeda Hirokazu)
• The Pearl Button (Patricio Guzman)
• Rabin, the Last Day (Amos Gitai)
• Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang Soo)
• Taxi (Jafar Panahi)

Check out the Midnight Madness, Docs and Vanguard selections after the cut:

2015 VENICE COMPETITION TITLES ANNOUNCED

Festival season is fast approaching, as yesterday's TIFF lineup announcement is followed up by today's Venice announcement! It's a lengthy list, as several slates are unveiled at once, with many of the year's most hotly-anticipated titles present. It looks to be yet another strong year for La Biennale di Venezia, after a recent shake-up in the selection process, with major international films joining lesser-known ones to make for a particularly promising lineup. Check it out in full below:

Venezia 72

• 11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski)
• Anomalisa (Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman)
• l'Attesa (Piero Messina)
• Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga)
• Behemoth (Zhao Liang)
• A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
• El Clan (Pablo Trapero)
• The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)
• Desde Alla (Lorenzo Vigas)
• The Endless River (Oliver Hermanus)
• Equals (Drake Doremus)
• Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokurov)
• Frenzy (Emin Alper)
• Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson)
• l'Hermine (Christian Vincent)
• Looking for Grace (Sue Brooks)
• Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli)
• Per Amor Vostro (Giuseppe M. Gaudino)
• Rabin, The Last Day (Amos Gitai)
• Remember (Atom Egoyan)
• Sangue del Mio Sangue (Marco Bellocchio)

More selections after the cut:

TIFF 2015 - FIRST NEW TITLES ADDED

There'll be more, but here are the first additions to the official lineup for the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF has been the premier launching pad for American awards fare for years now, though the fest's large scale provides plenty of space for indie and international titles to reach buyers and audiences. This year's festival runs between the 10th and the 20th of September. Check out the current slate below:

Galas

• Beeba Boys (Deepa Mehta)
• The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
• Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood)
• Forsaken (Jon Cassar)
• Freeheld (Peter Sollett)
• Hyena Road (Paul Gross)
• Lolo (Julie Delpy)
• Legend (Brian Helgeland)
• The Man Who Knew Infinity (Matt Brown)
• The Martian (Ridley Scott)
• The Program (Stephen Frears)
• Remember (Atom Egoyan)
• Septembers of Shiraz (Wayne Blair)
• Stonewall (Roland Emmerich)

Special Presentations

• Anomalisa (Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman)
• Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga)
• Black Mass (Scott Cooper)
• Brooklyn (John Crowley)
• The Club (Pablo Larrain)
• Colonia (Florian Gallenberger)
• The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)
• The Daughter (Simon Stone)
• Desierto (Jonas Cuaron)
• Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)
• Families (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
• The Family Fang (Jason Bateman)
• Guilty (Meghan Gulzar)
• I Smile Back (Adam Salky)
• The Idol (Hany Abu-Assad)
• The Lady in the Van (Nicholas Hytner)
• Len and Company (Tom Godsall)
• The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
• Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier)
• Maggie's Plan (Rebecca Miller)
• Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhang Ke)
• Office (Johnnie To)
• Parched (Leena Yadav)
• Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
• Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
• Son of Saul (Nemes Laszlo)
• Spotlight (Thomas McCarthy)
• Summertime (Catherine Corsini)
• Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
• Trumbo (Jay Roach)
• Un Plus Une (Claude Lelouch)
• Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
• Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore)
• Youth (Paolo Sorrentino)

LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL UNVEILS 2015 LINEUP

New films from Chantal Akerman, Andrzej Zulawski and Hong Sang Soo join festival opener Ricki and the Flash from director Jonathan Demme in filling out the slate for Locarno 2015. The 68th edition of the prestigious fest takes place from the 5th to the 15th of August in the Swiss location, and will feature a tribute to Edward Norton, among many other enticing programmes. Check out the details of the main selection lineup below, and the full lineup including shorts and retrospective slates here.

Concorso Internazionale

• Bella e Perduta (Pietro Marcello)
• Brother Dejan (Bakur Bakuradze)
• Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
• Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski)
• Dark in the White Light (Vimukthi Jayasundara)
• Entertainment (Rick Alverson)
• Happy Hour (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
• Heimatland (Lisa Blatter, Gregor Frei, Jan Gassmann, Benny Jaberg, Carmen Jaquier, Michael Krummenacher, Jonas Meier, Tobias Nolle, Lionel Rupp and Mike Scheiwiller)
• James White (Josh Mond)
• No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
• O Futebol (Sergio Oksman)
• Paradise (Sina Ataeian Dena)
• Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang Soo)
• Schneider vs. Bax (Alex van Warmerdam)
• The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers)
• Suite Armoricaine (Pascale Breton)
• Te Prometo Anarquia (Julio Hernandez Cordon)
• Tikkun (Avishai Sivan)

Piazza Grande

• Amnesia (Barbet Schroeder)
• La Belle Saison (Catherine Corsini)
• Bombay Velvet (Anurag Kashyap)
• The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
• Le Dernier (Pascal Magontier)
• Erlkonig (Georges Schwizgebel)
• Floride (Philippe le Guay)
• Guibord s'en va-t-en Guerre (Philippe Falardeau)
• Heliopolis (Sergio Machado)
• Jack (Elisabeth Scharang)
• The Laundryman (Lee Chung)
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
• Pastorale Cilentana (Mario Martone)
• I Pugni in Tasca (Marco Bellocchio)
• Ricki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme)
• Southpaw (Antoine Fuqua)
• Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume)
• Trainwreck (Judd Apatow)
• La Vanite (Lionel Baier)

A bunch more after the cut:

BOB AND THE TREES WINS KARLOVY VARY CRYSTAL GLOBE

Out of 226 films, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015 has found its one: Diego Ongaro's Bob and the Trees. Often considered a highly Euro-centric fest, Karlovy Vary's top choice this year was the American drama, starring non-professional Bob Tarasuk as a logger in Massachusetts with a love for gold and gangsta rap respectively. Full details of all of the prestigious festival's award choices below:

Crystal Globe

Bob and the Trees (Diego Ongaro)

Special Jury Prize

Those Who Fall Have Wings (Peter Brunner)

Best Director

Visar Morina (Babai)

Best Actor

Krystof Hadek (The Snake Brothers)

Best Actress

Alena Mihulova (Home Care)

Special Mention

Antonia. (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino)

The Magic Mountain (Anca Damian)

Europa Cinemas Label

Babai (Visar Morina)

Grand Prix for Best Documentary Film

Mallory (Helena Trestikova)

Best Documentary Film - Special Mention

The Father Tapes (Albert Meisl)

Best Film - East of West

The Wednesday Child (Horvath Lili)

Special Mention - East of West

The World Is Mine (Nicolae Constantin Tanase)

FIPRESCI Prize

Box (Florin Serban)

Forum of Independents Award

Tangerine (Sean Baker)

Festival President's Award

Iva Janzurova

Best Short Documentary Film

White Death (Roberto Collio)

Best Short Documentary Film - Special Mention

Women in Sink (Iris Zaki)

EDWARD NORTON TO RECEIVE LOCARNO EXCELLENCE AWARD

Acclaimed American actor, writer and director Edward Norton will receive the Excellence Award Moet & Chandon from the Locarno International Film Festival in August. The 68th edition of the Swiss fest, which announces its official competition lineup on the 15th of July, has announced Norton as the recipient of this prestigious award due to his 'immense talent in giving shape to characters as fascinating and complex as the times in which we live'. Norton was nominated for an Oscar and won an award from the National Board of Review for his performance in this year's Oscar Best Picture winner Birdman. Locarno will host a screening of a number of the star's films as part of a tribute to Norton, which will also include a conversation between himself and festival attendees Locarno 2015 runs from the 5th to the 15th of August.

JACQUES AUDIARD'S DHEEPAN IS SHOCK WINNER OF CANNES PALME D'OR 2015

On a slate of winners packed full of expected parties, though not all in their expected positions, and peppered with shock upsets, the greatest upset of all occurred in the greatest category of all: the Palme d'Or. Contrary to reviews declaring it to be a 'minor' work (or thereabouts) from director Jacques Audiard, his immigrant drama Dheepan took home the Cannes Film Festival's top award today, Sunday the 24th of May 2015. Audiard beat a host of acclaimed titles to the prize, many of whom were honoured in other categories. One such film was Todd Haynes' Carol, which had been predicted to at least bring home the gold for star Cate Blanchett if it failed to win any of the top awards - it did win the Best Actress prize, but not for Blanchett, as her co-star Rooney Mara shared the award with Emmanuelle Bercot, fending off the negative reports she and her film, Maiwenn's Mon Roi, received, and with a heavy oul trophy to give her extra clout. Full details of the Coen brothers' jury's decisions below, alongside Camera d'Or, Palme d'Or (Short Film) and Palme d'Or d'Honeur results below:

Palme d'Or

Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)

Grand Prix

Son of Saul (Nemes Laszlo)

Prix du Jury

The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Prix de la Mise-en-Scene

Hou Hsiao Hsien (The Assassin)

Prix d'Interpretation Feminine

Emmanuelle Bercot (Mon Roi)

Rooney Mara (Carol)

Prix d'Interpretation Masculine

Vincent Lindon (The Measure of a Man)

Prix du Scenario

Michel Franco (Chronic)

Camera d'Or

Land and Shade (Cesar Augusto Acevedo)

Palme d'Or (Short Film)

Waves '98 (Ely Dagher)

Palme d'Or d'Honeur

Agnes Varda