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Costa Brava, Lebanon‘s Mounia Akl, Everybody Loves Jeanne‘s Celine Devaux and The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo‘s Diego Céspedes are among the baker’s dozen projects selected for the upcoming Oxbelly writers’ lab retreat. From a whopping 2000 plus submissions, and...

Qatar’s Doha Film Institute has announced the recipients of its 2026 Spring Grants — as usual we focus on fiction feature film projects in three groupings – MENA – Feature Narrative – Development, MENA – Feature Narrative – Production and...

With a trio of shorts under her belt in Bea, Seriously (2021), Merci, Poppy (2024) and F*ck That Guy (2024) tri-state area now NYC based filmmaker Hanna Gray Organschi continues working with themes surrounding stubborn female protagonists with a feature...

In his three film filmography, Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Reisz has offered a social commentary mostly irony over deadpan, to explore folks who are often adrift in a confusing world, where social tensions mount and auds are offered insight thru different...

Fresh off the acclaimed Berlinale premiere of his third feature, Rose (hands down was among read our glowing review), Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer is now piecing together what could be quite an avant-garde biographic treatment of a singular artist’s rise...

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela Martelli’s sophomore feature The Meltdown (El Deshielo) has landed at Kino Lorber, marking a renewed collaboration between the distributor and the Chilean filmmaker. The idea will be to showcase the film...

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri and Camille Vidal-Naquet have landed important coin for their upcoming feature film projects via Eurimages. This round has supported 33 co-productions, including three documentaries and four animations, for a total...

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in Moral Fable What’s most interesting about director Michel Hazanavicius are his valiant attempts at dabbling in multiple genres and styles, clearly exemplifying a broad taste in cinematic subjects and inspirations. Unfortunately,...

Showing no signs of slowing down with the output of Charlatan (2020), Green Border (2023), and Franz (2025) this decade, Agnieszka Holland is entering the sewing circle following film history’s most iconic actress in Marlene Dietrich. The trades announce that...

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her 2022 sophomore film Alcarras, Carla Simón returns to the autobiographical roots inspiring Summer 1993 (2017), her debut feature. The...