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Not unlike previous years, NYFF programming team with Kent Jones as the top curator have gone with an auteur friendly, Croisette heavy line-up with...

2013's Un Certain Regard section carries a whopping five first time feature filmmakers that'll be measuring themselves up against auteur cinema heavyweights. While we...

We here at IONCINEMA.com like to think of the offerings in TIFF's Visions programme as the lieu where we find solace in cinema. Curators have grabbed envelope pushing items from Berlin in Dreileben (Three Lives) Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler, items we caught in Cannes from auteurs Bertrand Bonello, Alejandro Landes, Ruben Östlund and Vimukthi Jayasundara, Locarno's The Loneliest Planet (Loktev) and Venice items such as one of our most anticipated must see films of the year in Alps (see first look above) and Venice's Orizzonti section selected Swirl (Helvecio Marins Jr. and Clarissa Campolina), Kotoko (Shinya Tsukamoto) and Amir Naderi's Cut.

This year's Venice Film Festival (Aug. 27-Sept. 6.) looks like what the top tier of the medal standings might be comprised of at the upcoming Olympic games.

What a non-difference a year makes. With much bafflement, Ang Lee has collected a second Golden Lion in a row - taking the top...