Latest festival news – Page 3
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NewsA24 in talks to acquire Sundance debut ‘Sorry, Baby’
Third on-site deal amid sluggish market activity.
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News2025 Sundance Film Festival announces award winners
Ryan White’s ’Come See Me In The Good Light’ won the Festival Favorite Award.
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NewsVideo culture comes into focus at Rotterdam: “We all grew up in the VHS period”
Programmer and curator Olaf Möller on the festival’s retrospective of VHS culture and rental stores, ’Hold Video In Your Hands.
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NewsCate Blanchett shines light on refugee filmmaking fund: “These stories aren’t getting into the mainstream”
Blancett officially launched €500,000 Displacement Film Fund at International Film Festival Rotterdam
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NewsIcelandic drama ‘When The Light Breaks’ leads Goteborg winners
‘Trans Memoria’, ‘Love’ among other winning films.
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NewsIFFR Pro’s Marten Rabarts explains why he believes the Dutch make the best co-producers
Raberts was appointed in the autumn to head of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s industry strand.
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NewsMohammad Rasoulof says Iranian prison guards asked to watch his films with him
“They praised me for how well I made the film; while I’m sitting in prison because I made said movie.”
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NewsIran’s Soheila Golestani banned from travelling to Rotterdam to serve on festival jury
Rotterdam has expressed its solidarity with Golestani, calling her ”a victim of opression”.
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NewsRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic takes aim at Donald Trump in passionate opening-night speech
The festival director emphasised the power of cinema to connect pepole in an era of resurgent nationalism.
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NewsNetflix acquires Sundance drama ‘Train Dreams’ with Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones
Clint Bentley directed, co-wrote with Sing Sing director Greg Kwedar.
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NewsMaria Schrader, Fan Bingbing, Nabil Ayouch join Berlinale competition jury
They join jury president, US filmmaker Todd Haynes.
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NewsMichiel ten Horn on his Rotterdam opener ‘Fabula’: “It’s between comedy, crime and fantasy”
Film centres on a small-time petty crook played by Fedja van Huêt, star of Oscar winning ’Dutch movie Character’.
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NewsXYZ Films, Blue Finch Films to handle sales on SXSW selection ‘Redux Redux’ (exclusive)
McManus Brothers’ film follows mother on endless cycle of revenge.
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NewsNeon closes $17m worldwide deal on Sundance hit ‘Together’
International sales to commence at EFM in Berlin next month.
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NewsRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic, Clare Stewart talk festival highlights and funding challenges
2025 edition presents filmmakers, themes and topics “that you do not often get a chance to see.”
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NewsItalian sales agency Luminalia launches with Rotterdam and Toronto titles (exclusive)
Tommaso Priante previously worked at companies including Coproduction Office and Decker Distribution.
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NewsArthood Entertainment boards Rotterdam Big Screen competition title ‘Soft Leaves’ (exclusive)
Coming-of-age drama is debut feature by Belgian-Japanese director and screenwriter Miwako Van Weyenberg.
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News‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ to world premiere at Dublin International Film Festival
The full festival line-up has been unveiled.
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NewsCate Blanchett teams with Rotterdam film festival for Displacement Film Fund
Short film scheme will fund the work of displaced filmmakers.
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NewsUK producers Nicky Bentham, Sam Lavender to talk at Glasgow industry programme
The festival’s industry events run March 3-6.