Latest festival news – Page 148
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NewsLocarno and Zurich festivals receive huge Swiss funding boost
Locarno’s annual budget will rise to $1.88m from 2022 for four years.
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NewsJoachim Trier’s hot Cannes title ’The Worst Person In The World’ sells to UK, Ireland, India (exclusive)
Norwegian romantic drama premiered in Competition at Cannes.
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NewsJenny Suen’s ‘Peaches’ scoops top NAFF prize at Korea’s Bifan
Further awards included a prize for We Jun Cho’s ‘Hungry Ghost Diner’.
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News‘Paris, 13th District’, ‘Red Rocket’ land mid-pack on Screen’s Cannes jury grid
Today’s grid also includes Ildiko Enyedi’s ’The Story Of My Wife’.
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News‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ to get international premiere at Edinburgh film festival
Jonathan Butterell’s musical will screen a month before it debuts on Amazon Prime Video.
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week jury dishes out top prize to Egypt’s ‘Feathers’
The 60th edition marks film critic Charles Tesson’s last year at the helm.
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News‘Titane’ scores low on Screen’s Cannes jury grid; ‘A Hero’ lands joint-fourth
Julia Ducournau’s title lands behind ‘Lingui, The Scared Bonds’ on the jury grid.
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NewsLéa Seydoux cancels four-film Cannes trip after positive Covid test
Seydoux is asymptomatic and has since tested negative.
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NewsIreland's Galway Film Fleadh market to remain virtual for 2021
The main industry arm of the Fleadh, the Galway Film Fair will run concurrently with this year’s festival (July 20-25)
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NewsWes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ lands on Screen’s Cannes jury grid
Wes Anderson’s ’The French Dispatch’ and Kirill Serebrennikov’s ’Petrov’s Flu’ both received middling average scores on the grid.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival reveals 2021 line-up
Hybrid edition of festival will include a record 40 world premieres and 27 titles from Cannes.
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News“Wellbeing facilitators” could become the norm on all UK film shoots
The aim is to rid film and TV sets of cases of bullying and harrassment.
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News‘Drive My Car’ races into Cannes jury grid lead with ‘Benedetta’ third; ‘Flag Day’ struggles
‘Compartment No. 6’, ‘Bergman Island’ also land on the grid, which is halfway done.
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NewsNikias Chryssos, Franziska Stünkel titles among Munich winners
Chryssos won the best director award for ‘A Pure Place’.
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NewsCannes managing director plays down Covid-19 restrictions, cancellation rumours
François Desrousseaux talks festival’s evolving pandemic health protocols.
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NewsCannes 2021: Screen’s dailies
Browse Screen International’s daily magazines from the 2021 Cannes International Film Festival, which runs July 6-17. To read click on the image below.
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NewsBreaking Glass picks up LGBTQ+ drama ‘See You Then’ in Cannes Marché (exclusive)
Distributor plans early 2022 release.
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NewsLucky Red dives into Michelangelo Frammartino’s Italian cave drama (exclusive)
The Italian director’s third, as yet untitled feature, was shot in one of the world’s deepest caves.
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NewsCannes reiterates 48-hour testing is still required for non-EU attendees
Festival managing director François Desrousseaux also denied rumours of a Covid-19 cluster.
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NewsThierry Frémaux denounces “silly” Covid rumours: “There is no Cannes cluster” (exclusive)
News comes as Lea Seydoux tests positive in Paris, casting doubt on Cannes attendance.