Fests and events, 1/10.

"Could there be a better way of inaugurating a film festival than a lush, restored classic by Frank Borzage?" Doug Cummings, who was sorely missed, is back - with the first entry in a diary chronicling the goings on as he sees them at the Palm Springs International Festival.

"The International Film Festival Rotterdam has selected fourteen films for the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition of its 35th edition which will start January 25," announces a press release today. "The Competition line up counts nine world premieres, three international premieres and two European premieres." The short films lineup - 28 for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2006 and 16 for the Prix UIP Rotterdam - was unveiled last week.

More than half the program for the 21st Panorama of the Berlinale is now set. It'll open with Daniel Burman's Derecho de familia (Family Law) and include films by Neil Jordan, Andres Veiel, Michel Gondry, Udi Aloni, Sabu, Barbara Hammer, Marc Forster, Mary Harron, John Hillcoat and Buddhadep Dasgupta, among others. Meanwhile, Twitch's X reports that Lee Young-Ae, Lady Vengeance herself, will serve on the International Jury.

Panels, forums, workshops at Sundance. Cyndi Greening's got 'em.

Several of the bands playing on the soundtrack for Kat Candler's jumping off bridges, which'll see its world premiere at SXSW in March, will also be playing in the SXSW Music Festival.

Antonio Pasolini interviews Discovering Latin America film and culture director Yos Rivas for Kamera.

There'll be a special screening of Joe Pacheco's As Smart As They Are: The Author Project at 826NYC on Thursday.

Veit Helmer's Behind the Couch, a doc about casting in Hollywood, premieres in Berlin on Sunday at the Arsenal.

A series of "race films" made between 1910 and 1940 screens at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore in February. Via Sujewa Ekanayake.

Harper's posts and entry from its February 2004 issue: selected responses from children to the Chicago International Children's Film Festival's question, "What new and interesting things did you learn from seeing these films?"

Posted by dwhudson at January 10, 2006 7:38 AM