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FeaturesDebut 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
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FeaturesHow 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
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FeaturesCypriot 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
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FeaturesCzech 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
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NewsDavid 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.”
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FeaturesMunich’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.
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Features“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.
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Features“I need a face, I need a person,” says Michel Franco of his quest to bond with a sales executive
The Mexican filmmaker did not have much luck with sales execs earlier in this career.
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FeaturesSébastien Laudenbach on turning opera into animation with ‘Viva Carmen’
“We had to develop a story which does not exist in the opera.”
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FeaturesLili Horvat reveals her hopes and fears for fresh era of Hungarian film funding
Horvat was screening early footage of her second film ‘My Notes On Mars’ at Slano Film Days this month.
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FeaturesOur regional funds are falling apart, says Danis Tanovic of the struggle to get films financed in south-east Europe
The Bosnian director is attending Slano Film Days in Croatia, mentoring emerging filmmakers.
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FeaturesWord of Mouth: Director Tina Gharavi gets her viewing tips from students, scholars and the Green Eyeshadow Glitterati
Gharavi’s feature credits include ‘I Am Nasrine’ and ‘Virginia Woolf: Night And Day’.
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FeaturesTransilvania’s Mihai Chirilov on the ‘existential claustrophobia’ of the 2026 lineup
Chirilov has been artistic director since the decision to bring arthouse film to Cluj in 2002.
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Features“I am always optimistic,”: Sheffield DocFest creative director on the resilience of documentary
The festival runs from June 10-15, opening with Rich Felgate’s ‘We, The Hated’.
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Features“Diversity is the defining feature of European cinema,” says European Film Promotion president Vítor Pinheiro
One year into the job, Pinheiro reflects on the challenges facing the European industry and how some of EFP’s programmes can help.
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Features‘Colony’ director Yeon Sang-ho talks zombies, future projects and a Korean comeback
Yeon’s latest horror thriller premiered at Cannes.
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NewsDirectors’ Fortnight’s ‘Clarissa’ filmmakers on their next feature and the future of Nigerian cinema
Arie and Chuko Esiri have co-directed a modern-day adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s ’Mrs Dalloway’.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: The BFI’s Ama Ampadu on growing up with Spike Lee films and her love of music
She is senior production and development executive at the BFI Filmmaking Fund.
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FeaturesProducer Agustin Almodovar on brother Pedro’s ‘Bitter Christmas’: “This is his most experimental film to date”
“Pedro can take risks as an artist, but as a producer I won’t take any financial gambles,” El Deseo’s Agustin Almodovar tells Screen.
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FeaturesGaga president Satomi Odake talks Koreeda at Cannes and boosting the appeal of film
The established producer and distributor is also making moves into North America.