Latest festival news – Page 139
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News‘Earwig’ director Lucile Hadzihalilovic on working with UK producers and avoiding the ‘horror’ label
English-language debut is based on novel by UK sculptor and writer Brian Catling.
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NewsKenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ wins 2021 TIFF audience award
Winner has earned Oscar best picture nomination in last 11 years.
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NewsNew projects from Sofia Djama, Ala Eddine Slim head to Egypt's CineGouna Platform
The fifth edition of project incubator event will showcase 20 projects in development and post-production.
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NewsSan Sebastian 2021 unveils packed industry programme
Major events will also be live-streamed, including the European Film Forum.
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NewsChicago international competition line-ups includes ‘The Power Of The Dog’, ‘Prayers For The Stolen’ (exclusive)
Documentary Exposure from The Babushkas Of Chernobyl director Morris gets its world premiere.
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NewsGKids acquires Fantasia anime ‘Pompo The Cinephile’
Film has grossed around $1.8m since June release in Japan.
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NewsIvan Tverdovsky, Darya Zhuk projects head Germany’s Connecting Cottbus line-up
Tverdovsky attends with feature project ‘Hysteria’.
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News‘King Richard’ starring Will Smith as father to Williams tennis sensations to close AFI Fest
Serena and Venus Williams among executive producers.
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NewsBusan Film Festival sets 92 world premieres, will close with ‘Anita’
All features at the festival will have multiple screenings in cinemas.
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NewsRaindance Film Festival partners with Curzon for hybrid 2021 edition
Fifty-nine features are included in the full programme.
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NewsDOK Leipzig unveils 2021 co-pro market line-up (exclusive)
More than half of this year’s line-up is set to be directed by women filmmakers.
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NewsPortugal’s FEST unveils line up of directorial debuts from European festival circuit
‘Lamb’, ‘La Civil’, ’Zero Fucks Given’ are in the competition line-up.
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News‘Great Freedom’, ‘Paris, 13th District’ to bookend 2021 Filmfest Hamburg
Line-up also includes German premieres of Venice and Locarno winners.
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NewsTokyo fest to showcase Keisuke Yoshida in new Nippon Cinema Now section
New section replaces Japan Now and will focus on emerging talents who deserve greater international recognition.
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NewsUK producer warns of perils of algorithms on TIFF digital content panel
“We’ve created this notion that we flatten things in order that they can be bite-sized and…that’s something we can reverse.”
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NewsMarrakech film festival cancelled for second year, Atlas Workshops moved online
Industry-focused Atlas Workshops previously supported 2021 festival hits Feathers and The Gravedigger’s Wife.
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NewsBenedict Cumberbatch on empathy, playing the banjo and what Dionne Warwick told him about ’Sherlock’
“Sometimes you need a form of therapy to shed the experience [of inhabiting a role] and step away back into your reality and truth.
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NewsTIFF panel explores how to address imbalance and toxic behaviour
”People always wonder about how to achieve gender parity and I say hire women. Just hire them.”
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NewsAudrey Diwan’s ‘Happening’ wins 2021 Venice Golden Lion on historic night
Coppa Volpi acting awards go to Penelope Cruz and John Arcilla.
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News‘Imaculat’, ‘Californie’ win top prizes at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice
The Venice parallel section showcased 10 features in main competition.