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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
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FeaturesFabian Massah on why Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days is becoming a key B2B event in Germany
Industry Days runs from September 29 to October 2.
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FeaturesHow Filmfest Hamburg is showcasing emerging filmmakers from Germany and around the world
Festival director Malika Rabahallah and director of programming Kathrin Kohlstedde are also expanding the industry offering.
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FeaturesWith ‘Our Girls’, Dutch Oscar winner Mike van Diem was determined to make an ambitious film with unlikeable characters
The director says he was inspired by ‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf’.
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FeaturesDebut director Muriel d’Ansembourg on portraying the adult film world in NLWave title ‘Truly Naked’
With its dark themes and explicit sexual content, UK-set film will require deft and sensitive handling by distributors.
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NewsNetherlands Film Fund’s Sandra den Hamer on the launch of Dutch showcase NLWave25
Two-day event provides the international industry a first look at 44 hot projects from the Netherlands.
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Features‘Baka’s Identity’ filmmakers talk exposing youth poverty in Tokyo
The film plays in Competition at Busan International Film Festival.
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FeaturesJuliette Binoche on how Robert Redford encouraged her to make her directorial debut ‘In-I In Motion’
’In-I In Motion’, about Binoche’s live collaboration with Akram Khan, is launching at the San Sebastian International Film Festival
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FeaturesSan Sebastian’s José Luis Rebordinos talks politics and the appeal of Jennifer Lawrence to young audiences
Rebordinos is looking forward to growing the Creative Investors’ Conference further.