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A provocative new voice in British cinema, Luna Carmoon moved into feature films with a bang via Hoard (read review), her audacious debut starring Joseph Quinn and Hayley Squires premiered in the International Critics’ Week section of the 2023 Venice...

What will surely be a flurry of festival announcements in the coming week ahead, we now shift our attention to the 2026 fall festival season. With Toronto serving as the primary focus, we’ve assembled fifty titles that could potentially make...

The Venice Film Festival have announced the short films that will be part of the competition section and we find Italian illustrator Virginia Mori, Columbia Film program grad and Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film profiled Annie Ning,...

Making more and more inroads into auteur world cinema with the likes of Fernando Eimbcke, Michel Franco and Lance Hammer, Greenwich Entertainment have now completed some post-Cannes shopping landing the remarkable feature debut and Cannes Critics’ Week winner in Zou...

Fighting off the selection committees for Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian, artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro unveiled the line-up for the 79th edition of Locarno Film Festival — which opens with Gagarine tandem Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s magical realist...

After Ira Sachs brought the Croisette The Man I Love, the story of a gay stage actor navigating 1980s New York while confronting an AIDS diagnosis, Simon Stone explored similar territory with a biographical drama centered on actor Ian Charleson,...

We have a trio of Gala Presentation offerings to announce. Best Picture winning director of Coda will see her follow up feature open and world premiere the 51st edition of the Toronto Intl. Film Festival – this clears it off...

Steal Big, Steal Little: Grozeva & Valchanov Deliver Just Deserts It’s difficult not to feel a sense of schadenfreude in following the drastic downfall of a long-married Bulgarian couple in Black Money for White Nights, the latest from directing duo...

You’ll (Dis)Like My Mother: Mengel Mars a Celebration With his directorial debut The Guest, director Mads Mengel seems to have turned to the manifesto of the Dogme 95 film movement with a narrative purely utilizing the famed ‘vow of chastity’...

Production is set to begin next week on a remarkable twenty-fifth feature film for French filmmaker François Ozon. The Cineuropa folks report that Ozon will direct Pio Marmaï and Sandor Funtek in Le mal est fait (english translation: the damage...