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Marcela Saïd’s ‘El Puma’ – Everything We Know So Far …
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Santiago, Chile born filmmaker Marcela Saïd began in docu cinema before her move into narrative with The Summer of Flying Fish being selected for the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. She would return to the Croisette...
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Group Think: Christian Petzold Bringing Muses Nina Hoss & Paula Beer Under the Same Theatre Group Roof
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Christian Petzold is doing the rounds stateside for the release of Miroirs No. 3 and fans of the German filmmaker will be pleased to know that he might Valentine card his fans by bringing former muse Nina Hoss and current...
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2026 Cannes’ La Résidence: Pillion’s Harry Lighton & Toxic’s Saulé Bliuvaité Among Half Dozen Selected
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The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Harry Lighton, Emma Branderhorst, Joecar Hanna, Saulé Bliuvaité, Mansi Maheshwari and Oliver McGoldrick to their 51st session. From March 16th to July 31st, this next generation of international filmmakers will reside in...
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Two Prosecutors | Review
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Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A good man is hard to find, and if one were to be found, he’s likely wet behind the ears. So begins a retrospective parable in Two Prosecutors, the first narrative...
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Reinventing the Kneel: Schoenaerts, Samba & Csokas Join Ellie Foumbi’s Paris Escort Drama ‘Fleur’
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Matthias Schoenaerts, Makita Samba and Marton Csokas have been cast in Ellie Foumbi‘s spicy sophomore feature which gathered plenty of steam when Halle Berry joined the project last August. The trades announce that production on Fleur began this week. The...
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2025 Hubert Bals Fund’s HBF+Europe: Asmae El Moudir, Maya Da-Rin & Kamila Andini Projects Get Support
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A lucky eight film projects have landed support via Hubert Bals Fund’s HBF+Europe support schemes. The HBF+Europe: Minority Co-production Support scheme provides advanced financing for production, whilst HBF+Europe: Post-production Support helps consolidate funding once shooting is complete. Among the filmmakers...
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan Visiting Father-daughter Tensions with Pale Sun (Yorgun Günes) this Summer
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire and today we can confirm some exciting news – the Nuri Bilge Ceylan camp is indeed moving forward on his next feature film which will roll out this summer. We add mentioned a tidbit of...
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2026 Oscars Score Card: No Surprises Here as One Battle After Another Wins Best Picture
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Not that we have any issue with a legitimate tie, but it does make you wonder how many voters there actually are in the Best Live Action Short Film category, where The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva ended up...
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Pencils Down: Our 2026 Oscar Predictions!
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After dazzling the critic elite at Telluride and cementing its frontrunner status at TIFF, Hamnet appeared poised to gallop away with the Oscar race, but the season took a dramatic turn when Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another opened...
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Ann Oren’s ‘Objet A’ – Everything We Know So Far …
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Berlin-based visual artist Ann Oren transitioned from more than a decade immersed in short-form, docu and experimental cinema into her audacious feature debut, Piaffe — a bold, body-conscious fever dream that signaled the arrival of a striking new voice. As...
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