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2026 Berlinale: Rafael Manuel, Liz Sargent & Dara Van Dusen Debut Films in Perspectives Programme
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Last year’s first iteration had the likes of Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, Arnaud Dufeys and Charlotte Devillers’ On vous croit and Urška Djukić’s Little Trouble Girls), this year’s batch of thirteen first features (one final title might be...
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2026 Berlinale: Mundruczó, Çatak, Aïnouz, Schleinzer, Dulude-de Celles, Anthony Chen, Lance Hammer in Golden Bear Comp
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There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a gnarly twenty-two titles vying for the Golden Bear. In what will be a fruitful year of...
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2026 Lumières Awards: François Ozon’s ‘The Stranger’ Sweeps “France’s Golden Globes” with Trio of Awards
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Five weeks before the César Awards ceremony, we find The Stranger (aka L’étranger) possibly emerging as the possible favorite with François Ozon landing Best Film of 2025 kudos plus the extra golden trimming wins of Best Actor for Benjamin Voisin...
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Hindsight is 2026: Focus on the Ten U.S. Dramatic Comp Offerings for Buyers – 2026 Sundance Film Festival
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Hindsight is 2026 will focus on Sundance as we look back at some of the top acquisitions from last year’s festival and forward to the films in contention for the top prizes this year. The Sundance sales chart will be...
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2026 ICS: ‘One Battle After Another’ Finds the Rendezvous Point — Nabs Dozen Noms
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Leading with a dozen noms, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another nunchuked the hell out of the upcoming International Cinephile Society awards landing a whopping dozen nominations. Not far behind, earning 10 nominations with all its Recife bliss, Kleber...
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2026 European Film Awards: ‘Sentimental Value’ Wins Big while Laxe’s ‘Sirāt’ Nabs Five!
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It was perhaps poetic justice for the “2nd place” Cannes Film Festival winner, as Juliette Binoche who handed out the Palme d’Or to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident back in may sort of reversed the order giving Joachim...
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Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s ‘The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands’ – Everything We Know So Far …
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Known for her poetic visuals, Swedish-Costa Rican filmmaker Nathalie Álvarez Mesén made her first steps onto the film scene with her first trio of shorts in Filip (2015), Asunder (2015) – which was showcased at the Telluride Film Festival’s Calling...
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2026 Screenwriters Lab Fellows: Eleven Projects Selected Including Sarah Friedland’s ‘The Queue’
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The Sundance Institute have unveiled the 2026 Screenwriters Lab (January) and Screenwriters Intensive (March) Fellows with a total of eleven projects that will get to troubleshoot their projects (on paper) the weekend before the final Park City edition of Sundance....
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Audio Interview: Mascha Schilinski & Cinematographer Fabian Gamper – Sound of Falling
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It’s only the second day of Cannes competition when the sophomore feature from a virtually unknown German filmmaker arrives, creating one of those disorienting moments where you pause to take stock of what’s unfolding on screen, even as you’re not...
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2026 Berlinale: Nicolás Pereda, Joko Anwar, Ralitza Petrova, Rithy Panh & James Benning in Forum
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Rithy Panh looks at Cambodia’s lucrative trade in CO2 certificates and losing the forest in docu Nous sommes les fruits de la forêt, Joko Anwar offers a supernatural horror-comedy set in a prison with a catchy play on titles in...
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