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2025 film festivals and markets calendar: latest dates

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FIDMarseille unveils 2025 lineup including Rita Azevedo Gomes’ ‘Fuck The Polis’

New films from Clemente Castor, Caroline Golum in international competition.

Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize winner ‘A Poet’ lands US deal

Simón Mesa Soto’s second feature follows 2021 Cannes Critics’ Week entry ‘Amparo’.

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ to open Fantasia 2025

Festival to open one day earlier than previously announced, runs in Montreal July 16 to August 3.

Locarno unveils producers and projects for Africa-focused Open Doors programme

Festival’s co-production platform and talent development programme is focused on the African continent this year.

GKids acquires 4K restoration of Japanese cult classic ‘Linda Linda Linda’

EXCLUSIVE: Nobuhiro Yamashita directed film about all-girl group.

Toronto Film Festival to open with Colin Hanks’ ‘John Candy: I Like Me’

Hanks’ film is produced by Ryan Reynolds.

Karlovy Vary selection ‘Before/After’ acquired for world sales

EXCLUSIVE: The feature follows two men in their 30s experiencing baldness.

Cannes

Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize winner ‘A Poet’ lands US deal

Berlin

Why the role of festival manager has become more significant for a successful film launch

Venice

Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father, Mother, Sister, Brother’ headed to Venice, confirms Mubi CEO

Toronto

Toronto Film Festival to open with Colin Hanks’ ‘John Candy: I Like Me’

Busan

Busan festival director Jung Hanseok talks plans for landmark edition and “generational shift”

London

FIAPF issues robust statement to defend film festivals from ‘unprecedented attacks’

Sarajevo

Ruben Ostlund, Maura Delpero, Juho Kuosmanen head to Croatia’s Slano Film Days

Zurich

Glasgow, Locarno, IDFA join European film market alliance

Locarno

Locarno unveils producers and projects for Africa-focused Open Doors programme

Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary selection ‘Before/After’ acquired for world sales

Festival reviews

‘The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo’ review: Un Certain Regard winner is set in 1980s Chile

‘Honey Don’t’ review: Margaret Qualley plays a PI in Ethan Coen’s slight California comedy

‘13 Days 13 Nights’ review: Roschdy Zem stars in real-life Kabul extraction thriller

‘The Mastermind’ review: Kelly Reichardt’s sombre slice of 1970s Americana stars Josh O’Connor

‘Young Mothers’ review: Five teenage mothers form the nucleus of the Dardenne brothers’ latest

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