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FeaturesHow Tokyo film festival is celebrating auteurs while championing the next generation of filmmakers
One of Asia’s leading festivals has a focus on gender equality and the nurturing of young talent while helping build a strong inter-Asia filmmaking network.
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FeaturesJulien Temple on being an early adopter of AI, sharing the results with David Bowie
Temple’s feature doc ‘I Am Curious Johnny’ about Johnny Pigozzi is screening at the Rome Film Festival.
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NewsAsif Kapadia on the challenges of finding unseen footage for ‘Kenny Dalglish’ documentary
The Senna director opened up about the personal nature of his latest project and the detective work required to uncover rare archival material about the Liverpool FC icon.
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Features“It’s rare to find such engagement”: Italian director Paolo Virzì on working with a French seller for ‘Five Seconds’
The latest film from the prolific Virzì is premiering at the Rome Film Festival.
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Features‘Hedda’ director Nia DaCosta on the difference between filming in the US and the UK, stepping into the ‘28 Years’ world
Nia DaCosta is the recipient of Rome Film Festival’s progressive lifetime achievement award.
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Features“Cinema is like a talk show, but noble - and less violent,” says Italian director Riccardo Milani
Riccardo Milani’s ’La Vita Va Così’ is the opening film of the Rome Film Festival.
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NewsRome’s Paola Malanga on how the festival is becoming a “buying ground” for Italian distributors
Italian festival kicks off its 20th edition today with the world premiere of Riccardo Milani’s comedy ’La Vita Va Cosi’
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Features‘The Bureau’ showrunner Eric Rochant on scripted series evolution: “We need to find that depth again”
Rochant is currently working on upcoming Netflix series ‘Bandi’.
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FeaturesNew Film4 head Farhana Bhula talks ambitions, producer fee deferrals and winning over youth audiences
In her first sit-down interview as the new director of Film4, Farhana Bhula discusses her plans for the UK public funder.
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FeaturesBangkok film festival director talks reviving the event after 16 years
Donsaron Kovitvaniycha on resurrecting Thailand’s biggest film festival.
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FeaturesWhy Angelo Tijssens is known as the “magic bullet’ of Flemish screenwriters
He has worked on films such as Lukas Dhont’s ’Girl’ and ’Close’.
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FeaturesRebel spirit Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe talks about 20 years of the British Urban Film Festival
Anyiam-Osigwe says he was inspired by figures such as Menelik Shabazz and Kanya King.
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FeaturesFlanders Film Days is part of “evolution not revolution” strategy, says VAF head Karla Puttemans
”My first priority is to safeguard stability for our industry during this economic downturn,” says the new VAF head.
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FeaturesLFF head Kristy Matheson on 2025 programme, potential protests and festival’s “next decade”
Matheson is three years into her tenure as director of BFI London Film Festival.
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FeaturesMilan Skrobanek on The Unspoken Language’, about the love affair between a blind man and a deaf woman
Skrobanek explains the challenges he found when casting the feature.
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FeaturesMarlene Bischof and Nicolai Zeitler on how they made buzzy Hamburg title ‘I Am The Greatest’
” I throw dialogue in the air and he integrates it into the structure,” says Bischof of how the rising German filmmakers effectively collaborate.
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Features“French film is not a genre”: American French Film Festival heads on 29th edition’s diverse line-up
‘A Private Life’ to open fest running October 28–November 3 in Los Angeles.
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FeaturesIris Otten, producer of anticipated Dutch title ‘A Family’, on why she is driven by the spirit of ‘Dirty Dancing’
Mees Peijnenburg’s ’A Family’ is a coproduction with the Dhont brothers Flemish outfit The Reunion.
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FeaturesWhy Movistar Plus+ is embracing “risk-taking films” such as ‘Sirât’ and ‘Los Tigres’
“People are tired of ‘safe’, they are hungry for different stories and the unexpected,” says Guillermo Farré.
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NewsHelge Albers on ramping up MOIN’s support for Filmfest Hamburg and indie cinema
Regional German film fund received a €5m funding increase, taking annual budget to €22m