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IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent in cinema. This month, we spotlight Spanish filmmaker Lucia Aleñar Iglesias, whose directorial debut, Forastera, had its world premiere in the Discovery section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where...

The folks art Cineuropa are giving us a major update on the next feature by master filmmaker Ulrich Seidl. Most recently in casting mode, we learn that Christoph Grissemann, and muse Maria Hofstätter will topline Distances which is being co-written...

Hopefully at some point it’ll lose the over-used, generic title, but on the positive side, Swedish filmmaker Magnus von Horn is setting up his next project — moving into English language terrain with some premium talent in Jeremy Strong. Variety...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...