Equity bolsters support for indie film actors
Mostafa Rajaai will help to enforce the rights of actors and supporting artists on films of £3m and under.
Fantasia head talks titles to watch from 2026 lineup, YouTube creators and horror trends
Montreal fest runs July 16-August 2.
“Locarno is the place to see how a film can work,” says festival director Giona A Nazzaro
Nazzaro talks about his love for genre filmmaking and US cinema and embracing political debate.
New York Asian Film Festival turns 25 with bold, “shameless” selection and star power
Key titles include ‘Colony’, ‘Hope’ and ‘Dear You’.
NYAFF rising star awardee Sara Minami talks ‘All Greens’, ‘Magical Secret Tour’
The Japanese actress and model will receive the Screen International Rising Star Asia Award.
Nader Saeivar on his Karlovy Vary premiere ‘Hijamat’ and long-term collaboration with Jafar Panahi
Panahi produced and edited Saeivar’s latest film, which screened in Karlovy Vary’s main competition
Debut director Mads Mengel on casting his Karlovy Vary competition title ‘The Guest’: “I was so nervous the first time I met Trine Dyrholm”
The film is a tense drama about a matriarch who shows up unannounced at a family gathering
How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reshaped Karlovy Vary premiere ‘Black Money And White Nights’
The film, which is competing for the Crystal Globe award, is the Bulgarian directing duo’s fifth feature
Cypriot director Tonia Mishiali on her Karlovy Vary premiere ‘The Lion At My Back’: “My actress disappeared six weeks before the shoot”
Mishiali’s second feature is part of this year’s main competition at the festival
Czech filmmaker Šimon Holý on how his Karlovy Vary premiere ‘Chica Checa’ shows “otherness is not only about queerness”
The film is part of this year’s Crystal Globe competition
David Puttnam calls for bolder action from UK producers
“I hate defeatism, I really do, and I particularly hate it when it comes from within my own industry.”
Munich’s Julia Weigl and Christoph Gröner explain why they are making the festival a home for US indie cinema
They also discuss the festival’s role as a forum for political debate.
“I hit a wall,” says actor Maggie Gyllenhaal of what inspired her move into directing
”I came to the edge of what acting allowed me in terms of my artistic expression,” she said at Slano Film Days.
