Polish film director Agnieszka Holland will receive the special FIPRESCI 94 Platinum award during the Sofia International Film Festival which will be held 12-22 March. Sofia will be the first world destination where Holland will present her new film Charlatan after its premiere at Berlinale.

The South Korean film Parasite made history at the 92nd Academy Awards, becoming the very first non-English-language film to seize the top honor. The historic victory in the Best Motion's category, however was not the only one of the night for the film. The genre-defying thriller, which mined suspense, humor and anguish in its tale rooted in the socioeconomic divide between two families, also won best international feature film, original screenplay and director for filmmaker Bong Joon-ho.

South Korean class satire Parasite made history and Joker surprisingly edged out The Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood in Monday’s Oscar nominations. Yet, women and ethnic minorities were once again largely shut out.

War epic 1917 shocked the Golden Globes on Sunday by claiming the top prize for best drama film, while Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood won the most honors, massively boosting their prospects for next month's Oscars. Yet, while Once Upon a Time... - an homage to 1960s Tinseltown - won three prizes including best comedy, Martin Scorsese's much-vaunted Netflix crime saga The Irishman went home completely empty-handed.

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, by North Macedonian director Teona Mitevska won the 2019 Lux Film Prize, the EP press service reported. The winner was announced last Wednesday at a special ceremony at the Parliament in Strasbourg by EP President David Sassoli.

I don't divide films into “favourites” or any other categories. Every film has its own creative and artistic value. Every film is interesting, regardless of your taste and preferences, says actor Dimiter Marinov in an interview to Europost.

I have always been seeking knowledge and I still do. But it is not knowledge they give you at school, rather the knowledge that explains the meaning of things, film director Nikolay Vassilev says in an interview to Europost.

Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won best film at Cannes last year with "Shoplifters," will open the 76th Venice Film Festival on Wednesday with his French-set family story La vérité (The Truth)  starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke.

The Western Balkans' film scene has been thriving in recent years, reaching audiences across the world and winning awards at major festivals. And this week sees the opening of one of the biggest one in the region; the 25th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Founded during the siege of Sarajevo, it is today a major celebration of film, bringing together over 100,000 spectators and filmmakers to celebrate regional, European and international cinema.

Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho picked up a richly deserved Palme d’Or on Saturday for his “Parasite”, a brilliant family-based tragicomedy about the gap between rich and poor, wrapping up the most dazzling and political Cannes Film Festival in years, news wires reported.