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2026 Rathaus Film Grant Winners: Paisley Sutton, Rachel Debolski & Bree Gant
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Rathaus Films have announced the winners of the third annual edition of the Rathaus Film Grant. The Rathaus Film Grant—this year in partnership with Song United—continue to expand their impact and will collectively support three Detroit based filmmakers awarding $20,000...
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TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab 2026: Daniel Soares, Luis De Filippis & Catarina Vasconcelos Among Ten Projects
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Canadian filmmaker Luis De Filippis and Portuguese filmmakers Catarina Vasconcelos and Daniel Soares are among the ten filmmakers/feature film projects who have been selected to participate in TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab development programme. Screen Daily reports that we have seven debuts and...
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Stéphane Brizé’s ‘Un bon petit soldat’ – Everything We Know So Far …
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A filmography that began in 1999 with the Locarno Film Festival-premiered Le Bleu des villes, across ten features to date largely exploring economic struggle, institutional power versus the individual, and the dignity of labor under pressure—best embodied by his two...
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2026 Cannes: Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks (+ Special Masterclass) Added to Directors’ Fortnight Line-up
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Adding their 20th feature film to the 2026 edition, the Directors’ Fortnight have extended a special to master filmmaker Bruno Dumont. His shot under-the-radar Les roches rouges (aka Red Rocks) will receive its world premiere plus the filmmaker will give...
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2026 Cannes: Zachary Wigon, Konstantina Kotzamani, Christophe Honoré & Maria Martinez Bayona Among 16 New Titles
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James Gray’s Paper Tiger was confirmed a couple of hour ago as the 20th and final feature in the Palme d’Or competition but we have a whole bunch of extra titles filling up the rest of the fest major sections...
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Brotherly Shove: James Gray’s ‘Paper Tiger’ Finds Homes at NEON & Palme d’Or Comp
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The Croisette is set to give some love towards the Jersey Shore with Directors’ Fortnight selected Butterfly Jam (by Kantemir Balagov) and now, James Gray‘s Paper Tiger is being confirmed as the 20th competition title which Variety reports the film...
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2026 Cannes: Daniel Soares, Federico Luis, Theo Montoya & Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell’s Phạm Thiên Ân in Palme d’Or (short) Comp!
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Ten short films—nine clocking in at 15 minutes, with Portuguese filmmaker Daniel Soares’ latest just a minute shy—are vying for the Palme d’Or for Short Film (3,184 submissions in all), in what may be the most strikingly auteur-forward lineup in...
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She Likes it Raw: Luna Carmoon Dishes Out a Feast of Revenge ‘To Make Ends Meat’
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Some electroshock under-the-radar news this morning as we learn that British filmmaker Luna Carmoon has been hard at work on her sophomore feature – having wrapped up filming with Naomi Ackie, Alison Oliver, Éanna Hardwicke and Armande Boulanger toplining. And...
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Normandy Nesting: Léa Drucker, Melanie Thierry & Benoît Magimel Coat Carine Tardieu’s Grief Drama ‘La vie obstinée’
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Riding high after taking Best Film at the César Awards — beating out Nouvelle Vague, It Was Just an Accident, and Case 137 — for her Orizzonti-premiered L’Attachement (The Ties That Bind Us), which preemed this past February, Carine Tardieu...
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Andrea Pallaoro’s ‘The Echo Chamber’ – Everything We Know So Far …
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Known for a cinema that highlights emotional isolation, identity and self-reconstruction and focuses on the body as an emotional landscape, it’s his masterwork sophomore feature that truly put him on the map. Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro saw his debut Medeas...
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