Film festivals 2023 in review from Cannes, Venice, Berlin to Toronto and Tokyo: Hollywood strikes, stars, scandals, Ukraine, Iran, Harrison Ford.

Paul Ridd on his vision for the Edinburgh Film Festival, its competition strategy, integration with the Fringe, and the ...

Our 2023 edition still benefitted from Covid recovery resource, and this was the same for some other festivals, so in 2024 we had the challenge of attracting sponsors back, in addition to inflation.

Mandy Chang, head of global documentaries at multinational producer and distributor Fremantle, said, “We can studio finance, but mostly [that is restricted to the] biggest titles.