Tag: top-stories
2024 Hubert Bals Fund’s HBF+Europe: Erige Sehiri, Danielle Arbid & Ala Eddine Slim Projects Get Coin
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...
Aisha | Review
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...
Jeanne du Barry | Review
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...
Evil Does Not Exist | Review
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...
Skopje Sisterhood: Dina Duma in Production with “Skateboarding Is Not for Girls”
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...
Revisiting Misael: Lisandro Alonso Might Bookend Filmmaking Career with “La Libertad” Sequel?
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...
2024 TorinoFilmLab: Jacqueline Lentzou, André Hayato Saito & Ashmita Guha Neogi in FeatureLab
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...
2024 Directors, Screenwriters & Native Labs: Kristine Gerolaga, Hanna Gray Organschi & Sara Crow Return
Burgeoning filmmakers that we had the chance to meet this past January in Jane Casey Modderno, Kristine Gerolaga, Hanna Gray Organschi, Sara Crow +...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Claude Barras’ “Sauvages” & Paronnaud/Ducord’s “Into the Wonderwoods” Added!
The filmmakers of My Life as a Courgette and Persepolis are set to return to the big stage with their latest films as the...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Godard & Akira Kurosawa Feted in Classics Section
The section that we criminally need to overlook while covering the festival, the Cannes Classics films (excluding Le Cinéma de la Plage) are the...
Pieces of a Another Woman: Kornel Mundruczó Sets Up “At the Sea” with Amy Adams
In our second piece of news concerning a Hungarian filmmaker (and producer Alexander Rodnyansky), we've learned via the Deadline that Kornel Mundruczó has still...
Divided Against Themselves: László Nemes Begins Production on Broken Family Drama “Orphan”
For his third feature (in a row), László Nemes is going back into the history books for his next project set to month into...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Samir Karahoda, André Hayato Saito & Daniel Soares Among Palme Short Hopefuls
And last but not least, the Cannes Film Festival has announced the eleven shorts competing for the Palme d'Or.
Selected from just over 4400 submitted...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Rúnar Rúnarsson, Céline Sallette, Jessica Palud & Emanuel Parvu in Final Add-Ons
Today we've got a baker's dozen thirteen added to the Cannes 2024 edition. We learned beforehand that Mohammad Rasoulof and Michel Hazanavicius we competition...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Hazanavicius’ “The Most Precious of Cargoes” & Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in Comp
Are we capping off the Palme d'Or competition at twenty-one? This might be the case as we learned this morning (looks like Variety has...
Cabin Pressure: Keanu Reeves First Passenger to Board “The Entertainment System Is Down”
Following in the footsteps of Woody Harrelson, Keanu Reeves is the next actor in line for a special kind of miserablism reserved for air...
Pressing the Mute Button: Maysaloun Hamoud to Direct Taxi Driver-esque “Beretta”
A project that has been on our radar since it was an invited spec at Sundance's January Screenwriters Lab back in 2015, Beretta has...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Audrey Diwan, Abdellatif Kechiche & Jessica Palud Among 11th Hour Film Options?
The films from the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections are now on firm grounds and as we anticipate the unveiling of the Cannes...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Elena López Riera, Anna Hints & Lucie Borleteau Among Lucky 13 Shorts in Critics’ Week
After unveiling their feature film line-up on Monday, now the spotlight is on the shorts this morning. La Semaine de la Critique aka Critics'...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Josh Mond, Camila Beltrán & Guillaume Brac Drop ACID
With the likes of Maciek Hamela's documentary In the Rearview and Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach's animated film Chicken for Linda!, 2023 turned out...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Matthew Rankin, Tyler Taormina, Poggi/Vinel & India Donaldson Lock in Directors’ Fortnight
This year's edition of the Directors' Fortnight will begin with Barbie and end with...plastic. Julien Rejl's selection committee have lassoed a total of twenty-one...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Jonathan Millet, Saïd Hamich Benlarbi & Emma Benestan Load Up Critics’ Week
Last year the Critics' Week section introduced us to first and second features from the likes of Vladimir Perišić, Iris Kaltenbäck, Amanda Nell Eu,...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Sergei Loznitsa, Leos Carax, Alain Guiraudie, Claire Simon & Noemie Merlant Pack Cannes
The Cannes Premiere section stocked up on films from France with Alain Guiraudie's Misericorde among the mix, the Out of Competition section added a...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Ariane Labed, Rungano Nyoni, Mo Harawe, Konstantin Bojanov & Roberto Minervini in Un Certain Regard
Actresses Ariane Labed and Laetitia Dosch, Halfdan Ullman Tondel, Mo Harawe, Louise Courvoisier and Julien Colonna are part of the half dozen selected filmmakers...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia, Lanthimos, Baker, Gomes & Agathe Riedinger’s Debut Vie for Palme d’Or
With today's announcement of nineteen competition titles aiming in contention of the Palme d'Or (note that we might add another pair or trio next...
Feminist May: Sebastián Lelio Rides “The Wave” with #MeToo Musical
Some cool international film news dropping before Cannes unveils their line-up, Variety gets the exclusive scoop on a new Sebastián Lelio project flying off...
2024 Directors’ Fortnight Golden Coach Award: Andrea Arnold (and “Bird”) Honored in Cannes
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold is packing her bags for the Cannes Film Festival. She'll need to make some space in her luggage for Directors'...
2024 Regard – Saguenay International Short Film Festival Recap
Yesterday, the Regard – Saguenay International Short Film Festival concluded its 28th edition — well technically, in terms of the physical presence portion the...
2024 Le Groupe Ouest Selections: Zeno Graton & Angela Ottobah Among 8 Chosen Filmmakers
Among the well-known avenues of support for scriptwriting in the film industry, such as the Sundance Screenwriter's Labs and Cannes' The Residence, stands France's...
La Bête (The Beast) | Review
In the Mood for Love & Death: Bonello Explores the Final Frontier of Emotional Intelligence
Throughout the dizzying centuries-spanning odyssey of an unrequited love in...
Social Mobility: Reygadas’ “Wake of Umbra” Aiming for 2025
After shooting in countries such as Norway and his native Mexico, we can confirm that the Poland segment is now complete for Carlos Reygadas'...
The Old Oak | Review
A Tree Grows in England: Loach Loses Steam in Klutzy Refugee Drama
There’s no doubt Ken Loach is one of the most prominent social-realist directors...
Coup de chance | Review
Bad Luck Banging: Luck is a Fickle Mistress in Allen’s Amusing Gallic Debut
For his fiftieth (and rumored to be last) film, Woody Allen’s French...
Bit Torrent: Film Movement Land Víctor Erice’s Comeback Film “Close Your Eyes”
Harpooned by Thierry Frémaux and unceremoniously relegated to the Cannes Premiere section, the critically acclaimed Close Your Eyes (which topped the ICS Awards, and...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Possible Palme d’Or Competition Films
Usually in the twenty to twenty-two film range, the competition for the Palme d'Or has been a tad more inclusive in recent years in...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard (Part 2)
Yesterday we tossed filmmaker names like Ala Eddine Slim, Alexandre Koberidze, Marco Dutra and the tandem of Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza into the...
La Chimera | Review
The Passionate Thief: Rohrwacher Finds Treasures Under the Tuscan Sun
“The sun is following us,” whispers a willowy blonde in the enigmatic opening moments...
DogMan | Review
All Dogs Go to Heaven: Besson Gets Bombastic with Retro Pulp
The suspension of disbelief required to enjoyably settle into Luc Besson’s latest film, DogMan,...
Asphalt City | Review
Angel Heart: Sauvaire Serves Savior Complex in EMS Thriller
“It’s easier with wings than without,” was the tagline for Wim Wenders’ 1987 film Wings of...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard (Part 1)
Last year's Un Certain Regard section had a treasure trove of highlights in Kamal Lazraq's Hounds, Rodrigo Moreno's Los Delincuentes, Asmae El Moudir's The...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
In their inaugural edition and first mandate, Artistic Director Julien Rejl oversaw a significant transformation of the Directors' Fortnight, not only altering its name...
2024 Eurimages: Tarik Saleh, Hafsia Herzi, Joachim Trier, Carla Simon & Amanda Kernell Land Coin
The results of the first Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of European-based filmmakers to receive some...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Critics’ Week
Last year's edition of Critics' Week featured the likes of Ama Gloria, Tiger Stripes and Iris Kaltenbäck's Le Ravissement -- which would become the...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Asif Kapadia, Quentin Dupieux & Kiyoshi Kurosawa Best Bets in Non Comps
The majority of the Cannes Film Festival lineup is set to be revealed on April 11th, however, before we delve into the films that...
2024 TorinoFilmLab: Carolina Markowicz, Mikel Gurrea & Artemis Shaw Part of the ScriptLab
The Screen Daily folks have unveiled the projects and participants for TorinoFilmLab's 2024 ScriptLab and of the 16 projects (of the 700 plus submissions...
2024 Cannes’ La Résidence: Molly Manning Walker Among Half Dozen Selected
The huge winner of the last Un Certain Regard section in Molly Manning Walker (watch the award's ceremony below for the craziest ever acceptance...
Limbo | Review
Desert Fury: Sen Gets Bleak in the Heat of a Cold Case Mystery
Despite it being the title of innumerable films from around the world,...
2024 Berlinale: Festival Review Listing Recap
Before we put our focus on the upcoming edition of the Cannes Film Festival, we look back at our coverage of the Berlinale -...
The Shadowless Tower | Review
The Polite Stuff: Lu Searches for Redemption Through the Walking & Talking Cure
In the strangely alluring The Shadowless Tower, (Bai Ta Zhi Guang)...
Club Zero | Review
The Prime of Miss Jean Foodie: Hausner Satirizes Cult Behavior Through Caloric Deficit
Expanding on the genre sentiments which guided her past titles Hotel (2004)...
