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Hirokazu Kore-eda has a penchant for bringing things to life. The Japanese filmmaker has reanimated lifeless objects and souls who’ve lost their way, and he is currently revisiting some of those themes with his latest film Sheep In The Box...

We don’t have a title. We don’t have a synopsis, location or cast news, but Jia Zhang-ke is moving into production this December on his next feature film — and unlike his more recent work which delved into the past,...

In less than a decade’s worth of output, Iceland’s Hlynur Pálmason has already established himself as a major auteur among European filmmakers — he burst onto the international scene with his raw portrait 2017’s Winter Brothers (a Locarno and TIFF...

ARTE France Cinéma made their usual fall announcement of projects they’ll be backing and among the quartet of projects that includes Emmanuel Mouret (Le Cabinet du Docteur Albertini), Ana Elena Tejera’s sophomore feature Corte Culebra, and The Settlers‘ Felipe Gálvez...

Daniel Tantalean and Ryan Bobkin are part of the eleven up-and-comer indie film producers heading to the annual Sundance Institute Producers Labs next week. The Sundance Institute Producers Program champions independent producers across career stages, and this is a major...

“I already shot it and I’m editing now.” While Michel Franco is currently working on a documentary film in Poland, in a recent sit down with Variety at Karlovy Vary, we learn that he has already shot another feature —...

Teenage Wasteland: Riedinger’s Debut a Familiar Coming-of-Age Parade All that glitters isn’t gold, but social media success can break the mould. At least that’s the hopeful nugget bestowed upon the wayward heroine of Agathe Riedinger’s debut, Wild Diamond (Diamant Brut)....

The field of Pardo d’Oro hopefuls will include the likes of Radu Jude, Alexandre Koberidze, Ben Rivers, Maureen Fazendeiro and (surprise surprise) Abdellatif Kechiche this year. Locarno’s artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro has programmed what on paper looks like a...

The projects for the upcoming Venice Gap-Financing Market have been unveiled (32 feature-length fiction) and there’ll be several listed here projects that we’ll discuss at length next year when they start hitting the festival circuit of 2026 and especially, 2027....

They Kill Horse Riders, Don’t They?: Ortega Puzzles with Deadpan Metaphors Nothing is what it appears to be in Argentinean Luis Ortega’s latest film Kill the Jockey, a crime comedy drama which becomes an increasingly complex exercise regarding identity. The...