All articles by Ben Dalton – Page 28
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News‘Gladiator II’ muscles up £8.8m at UK-Ireland box office for Ridley Scott record opening
‘Paddington In Peru’ posts decent hold to enter year top 10.
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FeaturesTallinn’s industry head looks forward to presenting projects, talking AI and debating funding sources
The Tallinn industry programme closed attendance applications early for the first time.
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NewsLGBTQ+ sports documentary ‘Gay Games’ picked up for world sales (exclusive)
Film is currently in production, from Bafta-winning director Cherish Oteka.
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NewsBerlin’s Tricia Tuttle says ‘No Other Land’ directors’ comments are not antisemitic
“Discourse which suggests this creates danger for them inside and outside Germany.”
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NewsTodd Haynes to head Berlin Film Festival 2025 jury
Festival director Tricia Tuttle calls Haynes “a dazzlingly gifted writer and director with an impressive range.”
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NewsAlain Guiraudie’s ‘Misericordia’ acquired for UK-Ireland distribution (exclusive)
Film will be released theatrically in spring 2025.
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NewsRed Sea Souk market includes Asmae El Moudir, CJ Obasi projects
Moudir’s ‘Holy Cow’ follows a truck driver transporting cattle in Morocco.
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NewsSwedish Film Institute selects two winners of £60,000 Wild Card prize
Winners were awarded at a ceremony during Stockholm Film Festival.
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NewsBBFC report shows most complained-about films of 2023; cinema submissions at 10-year high
Content submitted for cinema classification at a 10-year high.
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NewsTallinn Black Nights responds to criticism of Russian film: “This is an anti-war work”
Film has been removed from the Standing with Ukraine programme, but remains in competition.
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NewsNickie Sault launches film and TV production company ‘Class 5’
Class 5 will produce ‘The Gallows Pole’ writer Ben Myers’ debut feature ‘Rare Singles’.
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NewsUK Next Wave Genre Lab selects projects, contributors for second phase (exclusive)
‘Love Lies Bleeding’ producer Andrea Cornwell is among contributors to the scheme.
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News‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ sweeps Critics Choice Documentary Awards
UK-US documentary wins all six categories in which it was nominated.
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NewsHong Sangsoo’s Locarno title ‘By The Stream’ acquired for UK-Ireland (exclusive)
The film centres around a scandalous incident involving a lecturer and her uncle.
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NewsUS abortion rights doc ‘Zurawski v Texas’ acquired for international sales (exclusive)
The documentary follows women denied abortions, who group together to sue the state.
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News‘Paddington In Peru’ rejuvenates UK-Ireland box office with £9.7m opening
Biggest opening ever for Studiocanal; third-biggest of the year.
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FeaturesTallinn director Tiina Lokk warns about threats to film festival independence
”There is no right to demand that you should take a film off your programme,” says Lokk.
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NewsLes Arcs unveils projects for 2024 Coproduction Village
10 of the 18 projects are fiction feature debuts.
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NewsAllison Gardner, Glasgow Film CEO and festival director, to retire in 2025
Gardner will step down in October 2025 after more than 30 years with the organisation.
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NewsOrwa Nyrabia to leave International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in 2025
The Syrian filmmaker will oversee his seventh and final edition as IDFA artistic director later this month.








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