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2026 Venice Film Festival: Projecting the Lido Lineup – 83 Titles in All!
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Next week we will know the line ups for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as the 41st International Critics’ Week picks and 23rd Giornate degli Autori selections. Typically landing in the 21-to-23-film range, the Golden Lion competition...
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João Paulo Miranda Maria’s ‘I Don’t Even Know Who I Was’ – Everything We Know So Far …
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France-based filmmaker João Paulo Miranda Maria is one of the new emerging voices from Brazil and has already padded a resume of shorts that were showcased at Cannes and Venice to prove it hi savoir-faire. A cinema curious about colonialism,...
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Eyes on the Podium: Mary Bronstein Has Jenna Ortega & Rose Byrne as Rivals in ‘Nasty’
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Warner Bros.’ indie label Clockwork lassoed the future cinema offerings from Sean Baker and Park Chan-Wook, and today they announce they’re moving into production on Mary Bronstein’s next film — a sport drama with the main course being a bit...
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2026 NYFF: James Gray’s Nightmarish American Dream ‘Paper Tiger’ to Open 64th Edition
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James Gray’s Paper Tiger has been selected by the New York Film Festival as the Opening Night selection for the 64th edition. This is film counts as number four to be selected by the festival. The film might have left...
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2026 TIFF: Naishtat, Rachel Morrison & Bassam Tariq World Premieres Added; Zellners Heading to Venice
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Five Special Presentations programme titles have been added to Toronto, four of them are world premieres and one is heading over to the Lido. The Zellner Bros. will indeed be heading over to Venice with Alpha Gang – the tale...
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2026 Venice: Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink’ is the Opener for Golden Lion Competition
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Danny Boyle‘s INK will indeed competition for the Golden Lion — with the Venice Film Festival setting the control of free speech thriller as the opening film of the festival with the world premiere set for September 2nd. This is...
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2026 Locarno Film Festival: Jury Duty for Fabrice Du Welz
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Venice Film Festival just announced their jury, TIFF’s Platform section trio should happen any day now, and we now have Locarno eyeballs on the different comps and le president for the Concorso Internazionale section at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival...
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2026 Venice Final Cut WIP Lab: Alaa Eddine Aljem, Sofia Djama & Bassel Ghandour Among Six Projects
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Among the final stops on the road to their expected premieres at the major prestige film festivals of 2027 — most notably Cannes — are these half-dozen projects being presented at the Final Cut in Venice work-in-progress lab. Launched in...
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The Pragmatic Mother: Carey Mulligan Cast in Sarah Polley’s ‘The Bell Jar’
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Currently in production in Toronto, we now know the identity of who will play Mrs. Greenwood in the longest gestating feature film adaptation for Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar directed by Sarah Polley. Variety reports that Carey Mulligan joins Billie...
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2026 World Cinema Fund: Ana Cristina Barragán, Amanda Nell Eu & Lara Zeidan Receive Coin
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Projects from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ecuador, Lebanon, Malaysia, Philippines, Senegal, and Turkey and up-and-comers Ana Cristina Barragán, Amanda Nell Eu and Lara Zeidan are part of the fortunate filmmakers to receive coin for their feature film projects via the...
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