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With a bit of rebranding (now sounds like a tennis ATP tour event) the Venice Open section which houses the non comp non-fiction films, also has a firm eleven fiction films with a lot of big name auteurs in not...

This is not hyperbole. The Venice Film Festival have unveiled perhaps the most stacked Out-of-Competition Non-Fiction line-up in decades. It’s a who’s who list of some of the best working docu filmmakers in the business – they’re all shoring up...

Cannes have the Un Certain Regard section, and Venice has the Orizzonti. While we do find some fresh new voices from the nineteen films selected we also find fresh new works from the likes of India’s Anuparna Roy, Greece’s Jacqueline...

As we had mentioned in our predictions piece over the weekend, the competition skews heavily dude-centric this year, with May El-Toukhy‘s Woman Unknown being the only female-directed entry among twenty films, while acquisition prospects are boosted by high-profile titles such...

Atomic Age and Spirit of Ecstasy‘s Héléna Klotz is getting ready to launch production on her third feature film. Cineuropa reports that French filmmaker is moving into production next month on Celles qui parlaient tout le temps (aka The Girls...

From yesterday’s TIFF Platform section we now move to two dozen film offerings that populate the Discovery programme and at the top of the list we have the opening film titled Stuffed by Theo Rhys starring Jodie Comer and Harry...

Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvát, actress-turned filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo and veteran French filmmaker Robert Guédiguian are among the ten in the female-centric competition line-up. Horvát’s highly anticipated My Notes on Mars (we recently profiled the film) starring Mackenzie Davis and Rupert...

Last week, Netflix dropped that they were back in the Ava DuVernay business when it was announced that her new docu would open sometime this year….now the New York Film Festival folks announce that 14th will close the fest (October...

Earlier this year, the Academy Awards announced that the winner of TIFF’s Platform Award—alongside major prizes from other leading international festivals—would automatically qualify for consideration in the Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars. A significant evolution for a...

Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder, Chris Rock’s Misty Green and Florian Zeller’s Bunker will be receiving major showcases as they were selected as part of the 2026 Gala Presentations. Yan Lanouette Turgeon’s Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend has...