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Fresh off winning the Grand Jury Prize in Venice for The Voice of Hind Rajab (read review), Kaouther Ben Hania has shifted directly to her next project, Mimesis, which is now in production. The Cineuropa folks confirm that the film...

Absurdist auteur par excellence, Quentin Dupieux has thrown us some clapperboard proof that Kristen Stewart, Woody Harrelson, Emma Mackey, Charlotte Le Bon, Nassim Lyes, Tim Heidecker and (re-teaming with Wrong Cops) Eric Wareheim are part of the ensemble for his...

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...