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UK-Ireland box office preview: Paramount’s ‘Smurfs’ colours 596 cinemas blue
Additional releases include ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’, US comedy ‘Friendship’.
‘Four Letters Of Love’ director Polly Steele on the film’s “magical” shoot in Ireland and Northern Ireland
Vertigo Releasing is opening the film in the UK and Ireland on July 18.
Hong Kong star Natalie Hsu on her meteoric rise and future projects 'Girlfriends', 'Mother Bhumi'
The ‘Last Song For You’ actress will next be seen in ‘My First Of May’ opposite Aaron Kwok.
“There was lots of yelling”: Hong Kong star Ekin Cheng talks four decades on screen
The actor and Cantopop singer introduced ‘Last Song For You’ at NYAFF, where he was honoured for his contribution to cinema.
Five African directors to watch in Locarno
Screen profiles the filmmakers chosen to screen their exciting short films in Locarno Open Doors.
“Our cinema should assert its difference”: How a group of African producers are forging their own paths
The producers are taking part in Locarno’s Open Doors Producers programme.
Open Doors is bringing together rising African talents to find strategies to boost local industries
Open Doors is the presitigious talent development programme of Locarno Film Festival.
Locarno Pro 2025 aims to match private film financiers with emerging talent
Locarno Pro head Markus Duffner reveals some of the highlights of the festival’s industry programme.
"Films are a sign democracy exists," says Locarno director Giona A Nazzaro
Locarno’s artistic director Giona A Nazzaro tells Screen about the festival’s selection of more than 200 films that address changes in the cinematic language as well as the changing state of the world.
In profile: Locarno’s 2025 Open Doors Projects
Six projects by filmmakers from African countries have been selected for the Open Doors Projects at Locarno’s Open Doors 2025.
“Existential dread” is fuelling the genre boom says Fantasia festival head Mitch Davis
Like its recent predecessors, this year’s 29th edition of Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal will reflect a genre film scene whose output is “built on existential dread and the anxiety of a world that’s changing for the worse,” says festival artistic director Mitch Davis.
How NYAFF is bringing “bizarre, weird and wild” Asian cinema to the US
Guests being honoured at the 2025 edition include Lisa Lu, Ekin Cheng, Natalie Hsu, Vivian Song and Tadanobu Asano.
Lena Dunham on her slate, creative freedom and ‘Too Much’
“I really love taking genres that feel well-worn and then seeing what we can inject into them.”
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