Latest festival news – Page 6
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NewsInside Out festival sets five projects for International Finance Forum
Line-up includes LGBTQ projects from the US, the UK and China.
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NewsThierry Fremaux talks selection process, Depardieu, AI in pre-Cannes press conference
Fremaux bristled at the notion that the festival always selects films from the same people.
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NewsUK comedy ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ starring Carey Mulligan to open Munich film festival
Directed by James Griffiths, the film stars Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan and Tim Key.
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NewsTransilvania film festival to open with Brendan Canty’s ‘Christy’; Pitch Stop projects unveiled
Source: Charades ‘Christy’ Irish filmmaker Brendan Canty’s debut feature Christy will open the 24th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca on June 13. The coming-of-age-story had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus section where it won the section’s Grand Prix ...
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NewsFantasia unveils first wave; new work from Hwang Wook, Steve Pink, the Adams Family
Montreal fest runs July 17 to August 3.
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NewsMohammad Rasoulof project among five backed by Rotterdam and Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund
Short film grant scheme has also backed projects by Maryna Er Gorbach, Mo Harawe, Hassan Kattan and Shahrbanoo Sadat.
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NewsJiri Bartoska, Czech actor and Karlovy Vary president, dies aged 78
The popular Bartoska had been festival president since 1994.
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NewsCannes adds four films including new Competition title
Bi Gan’s ’Résurrection’ joins the competition lineup.
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NewsLuxbox takes on international sales to Radu Jude’s offbeat comedy drama ‘Dracula’
EXCLUSIVE: “Make Dracula Great Again,” said Jude of the film that is being launched in Cannes.
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NewsQuentin Tarantino to be Cannes Classics guest of honour
Classics also includes ‘Amores perros’ presented by Alejandro G. Inarritu.
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NewsSydney Film Festival unveils 2025 competition packed with Cannes-bound titles
More than 200 films from 70 countries are set to play at the festival in Australia.
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NewsMichel Franco’s Berlinale selection ‘Dreams’ lands US buyer
Jessica Chastain, ballet dancer Isaac Hernández star.
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NewsEdinburgh International Film Festival 2025 to open with ‘Sorry, Baby’
EXCLUSIVE: Eva Victor’s comedy drama world premiered at Sundance and will play at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight.
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NewsBleecker Street, LD partner on ‘Bone Lake’; Mister Smith launching international sales in Cannes
Company’s latest foray into genre will open theatrically on October 10.
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News‘I, Poppy’ named best international feature at 2025 Hot Docs
Fourteen awards, CAD $90,000 in cash and prizes presented at Friday’s ceremony in Toronto.
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NewsChina’s ‘Her Story’ wins best film at Udine’s Far East Film Festival
The extended version of Anselm Chan’s ‘The Last Dance’ also picked up two awards.
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NewsGlobal Constellation, WME Independent board sales on Directors’ Fortnight title ‘Lucky Lu’
EXCLUSIVE: Lloyd Lee Choi’s feature debut is based on his Cannes short ‘Same Old’.
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NewsNeon sets summer release for Cannes Premiere comedy ‘Splitsville’
Neon, Topic Studios co-financed Covino’s follow-up to 2019 Cannes entry The Climb.
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NewsSheffield DocFest to open with Kim Hopkins’ ‘Still Pushing Pineapples’
The documentary follows the life of the fomer lead singer of Black Lace
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NewsShudder acquires English-speaking territories to SXSW hit ‘Good Boy’, Altitude boards sales for Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Altitude plans Cannes screenings of supernatural horror from POV of a dog.