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Eternity and a Day: Scott Rehashes the Dying Embers of an Empire “The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in...

Just ahead of the annual Black List (can you believe the list has been with us for two decades now) to be unveiled in mid-December, the Black List has named the projects and writers for its inaugural Projects Lab (with...

A total of seventeen awards were handed out at this year’s American Film Festival’s U.S. in Progress industry showcase, an event focused on connecting American independent film projects with Polish post-production resources. The two standout winners were first-time feature filmmakers...

At the American Film Festival in Wrocław, teams behind the projects selected for the U.S. in Progress—a festival industry event—pitched their films to potential buyers, film festival programmers, and Poland-based post-production companies. Under the guidance of Artistic Director Ula Śniegowska,...

One of the more important recently new development labs on the film circuit have just unveiled their 2024 line-up. Les Arcs Film Festival’s Co-Production Village have eighteen European projects and in contention we find the likes of Sofia Alaoui, Claire...

Despite having gone into production in the summer of 2023 (in Mexico City and San Francisco), Dreams was not a film that Michel Franco wanted to rush for a 2024 drop. Today, The Match Factory officially launches sales on the...

The Marrakech International Film Festival have announced its complete line-up and in the official competition (first and second feature films) film titles we find a handful of Cannes and Venice Film Festival sidebar items most notably Venice’s own Orizzonti section...

Dole Days: Arnold Flutters About with Strange Bedfellows There’s certainly a definable emotional core in Andrea Arnold’s fifth narrative feature, Bird, but the ideas and themes tying it all together are about as wispy and freewheeling as scattered feathers drifting...

All the Small Things: Mielants Mines the Evils of Complicity “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” The oft cited quote from Edmund Burke is the ultimate essence of Small Things...

Last Train to Zhili: Bing Brings Youth Cycle to Circular Close Wang Bing completes his ‘Youth’ trilogy with finale Youth (Homecoming), which features the most forgiving running time of the three segments at only two and a half hours. The...