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One Question: Sean Wang – Dìdi (弟弟)
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Today, Focus Features release Dìdi (弟弟) – the 2024 Sundance Film Festival winner of the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast. As part of a Global Press Conference day this week,...
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Survival of the Fittest: Anamaria Vartolomei Joins Laura Wandel’s “L’Intérêt d’Adam”
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Earlier last month we reported that actresses Léa Drucker and Noémie Merlant were going to topline Laura Wandel’s highly anticipated sophomore feature, L’Intérêt d’Adam. We now learn via the Cineuropa folks that Anamaria Vartolomei will instead take the role that...
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2024 TIFF: Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” Opens the Midnight Madness Programme
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It was considered a “risky” film selection by Thierry Frémaux that divided critics but found a large swath of defenders (including our chief film critic Nicholas Bell) and now Coralie Fargeat will have its North American premiere at the fest...
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2024 NYFF: Steve McQueen’s Blitz Selected to Close 62nd Edition
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After showcasing three of the five Small Axe films, Steve McQueen is set to have the international premiere of Blitz at the New York Film Festival. After world premiering at the London BFI Film Festival on October 9th, he’ll be...
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2024 TIFF: César Augusto Acevedo, K’naan Warsame, Laura Carreira & Durga Chew-Bose in Discovery Programme
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Reserved for debut and sophomore films from emerging filmmakers, this year’s Toronto International Film Festival’s Discovery programme consists of two dozen feature films and it’ll include some noteworthy items beginning with the film that opens the section in Canadian writer-turned...
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2024 World Cinema Fund: New Lisandro Alonso & Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Projects Backed
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Last year the likes of Nara Normande and Tião (Venice 2023 selected Sem Coração) and Mo Harawe’s (Cannes 2024 selected The Village next to Paradise) received coin for their feature film projects. Coming from countries such as Algeria, Argentina, Brazil,...
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2024 TIFF: Valchanov/Grozeva, Nacho Vigalondo, Carlos Marqués-Marcet & Rodrigo Prieto in Platform Programme
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Named after the influential film Platform (2000) by the great “Sixth Generation” master filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke, it’ll soon be a decade since TIFF introduced the Platform section – the fest’s only competition section meant to promote innovative and bold type...
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2024 Venice: Corbet, Guadagnino, Haugerud, Kulumbegashvili, Salles, Tsangari & Yeo Siew Hua In Golden Lion Competition
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21 films were selected for the 2024 Venice Film Festival competition and in the pack we find some surprises and several shoe-ins for the 81st edition (August 28th until September 7th). We will of course be there for wall-to-wall coverage....
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2024 Venice: Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Fabrice du Welz, Asif Kapadia, Errol Morris & Harmony Korine Out of Comp
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While we might still be on the fence about what is being described as a first-person shooter-type experience in Harmony Korine‘s Baby Invasion, but the Venice Film Festival’s Out of Competition section lineup could be just as daring as the...
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2024 Venice: Avranas, Alex Ross Perry, Rosenberg, Kerekes, Friedland, Neo Sora & Elizabeth Lo in Orizzonti Selections!
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The Un Certain Regard section in Venice, recent winners of the Horizons (Orizzonti) section include Gábor Reisz’s Explanation for Everything, Houman Seyyedi’s World War III and Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Atlantis. Some of the standouts in the selection of nineteen films include...
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