The artistic director of the Berlin International Film Festival, Carlo Chatrian, said that he will step down next year.

The producer of films including Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and The Beach has been announced as the new chair of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) – less than a year after administrators were called in.

Africa’s largest film festival is being held in the West African nation of Burkina Faso amid soaring jihadi violence that has killed thousands of people and displaced nearly two million.

Sean Penn’s film about the war in Ukraine, Superpower, will have its world premiere at this year’s Berlin film festival, organisers said.

The 44th Moscow International Film Festival opened on Friday with reduced foreign representation amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

An international film festival in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary opened on Friday amid controversy, following a protest by Ukraine over the screening of a Russian film alongside Ukrainian-made movies.

West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose, Licorice Pizza’s Alana Haim and Belfast’s Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe are among the actors who will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Virtuosos Award this year.

An emergency ward nurse has been selected to spend a week on an isolated island in the North Sea to watch the entire movie programme of Scandinavia’s largest film festival.