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Among the Croisette items contending for the prestigious Caméra d’Or at Cannes, a fresh voice emerges from Argentina’s film scene: Federico Luis, a filmmaker based in beautiful yet economically challenged epi-center of Buenos Aires. Following his participation in the Shorts...

Before the film world descends onto the Croisette the floodgates have opened up for a flurry of film trade news and we have another high-profile project we’ll be keeping tabs on with Andrew Haigh cementing his next project. Deadline confirms...

In the realm of dirt bike racing, the term “block pass” describes when you obstruct someone’s path with your bike and body, effectively standing in their way. It serves as a fitting metaphor for the portrayal of blood brothers grappling...

Ten projects are the latest to be awarded by the Hubert Bals Fund’s HBF+Europe support schemes. Ten projects in all are receiving coin and among them we have an Anonymous project, plus the latest from Erige Sehiri, Danielle Arbid and...

No Safe Havens: Letitia Wright’s Breathtaking Refugee Turn Frank Berry’s Aisha is the superbly moving record of a Nigerian refugee’s quiet fight for dignity in Ireland’s inhumane Direct Provision system for asylum seekers. Thoroughly-researched but fictional, gently-paced but absorbing, Berry’s...

Vanity Affair: Maïwenn Tarries with Madame du Barry For her sixth feature film, Maïwenn tackles her first period piece with Jeanne du Barry, resurrecting a historical footnote in the refreshed trend of obsessive royalty porn. Fittingly, a film dealing specifically...

The Killing of a Sacred Dear: Hamaguchi Explores Ills of Urbanization Ryūsuke Hamaguchi explores the doctrine about the absence of evil in his latest drama Evil Does Not Exist, a quiet film pondering the necessary evils of urban development and...

A fresh, new talent in North Macedonia cinema, Dina Duma is currently in go kick-flip mode with her sophomore feature. FilmNewEurope report that production began this past month (in Skopje) on Skateboarding Is Not for Girls — and will wrap...

In Argentina, where the situation is already dire, one of the most prominent voices in the country’s national cinema is contemplating retirement. At forty-nine years young, Lisandro Alonso confided to James Benning that he would revisit the protagonist (as well...

The folks at ScreenDaily have unveiled the 10 projects (nine fiction/one docu) selected for the 2024 FeatureLab training programme (for debut and sophomore projects in the development stage) and among the names we can the likes of Jacqueline Lentzou, André...