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2026 Berlinale Co-Production Market: Francisca Alegría, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Klaudia Reynicke, Ivan Grbovic & Amanda Nell Eu Invited!

Francisca Alegría, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Klaudia Reynicke, Ivan Grbovic and Amanda Nell Eu are among the filmmakers who'll be setting up shop for the upcoming...

2023 TorinoFilmLab: Ognjen Glavonic, Makbul Mubarak & Anita Rocha da Silveira Among ScriptLab Participants

The Loads' Ognjen Glavonic, Autobiography's Makbul Mubarak & Medusa's Anita Rocha da Silveira are among the selected filmmakers for TorinoFilmLab's ScriptLab Participants. Glavonic will...

2023 New Directors/New Films: Avilés’ Tótem, Abbruzzese’s Disco Boy & Leaf’s Earth Mama Among Highlights

Lassoing international film titles as far back as last year's Manuela Martelli's Chile ’76 and Saim Sadiq's Joyland and as recent as Berlinale's Abbruzzese's...

2022 TIFF: Honoré, Seidl, Pálmason, Mungiu & Gueret+Akoka in the Contemporary World Cinema Program

After front-loading the section with Canadiana last week, we now know the entire make-up of the Contemporary World Cinema Program and there are plenty...

2022 Venice Film Festival: Alice Diop, Poitras, Panahi & Iñárritu Among Front-Runners for the Golden Lion!

With only one title left to be unveiled (for the time being, let's call it the August 30th pre-opener as it will be actually...

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Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.