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NewsRussian government to boost film funding
Meanwhile, Russia pulls the plug on its co-development fund with Germany.
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NewsFrench box office fell 5.3% in 2013
French productions lose market share as US films take more than 50% of box office for first time in more than a decade.
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NewsRotterdam to open with Qissa
The 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is to open with the European premiere of Indian drama Qissa, celebrating 25 years of the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF).
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NewsMonica Z leads Guldbagge nominations
Per Fly’s biopic leads Swedish film award nominations with 11 nods, followed by Shed No Tears, The Reunion and Hotell.
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NewsSPC picks up The Notebook
Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American rights from Beta Cinema to Hungary’s shortlisted foreign-language Oscar submission.
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NewsScreen's most-read news of 2013
Screen looks back on our 15 most-read news stories of the year, led by our favourite feel-good story of the year, the Pixar team helping Ken Loach complete his latest feature.
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NewsEye On Films launches Croatian online festival
First films on offer are Beast Paradise and The First Rasta.
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NewsIda wins top Les Arcs prize
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Polish nun drama adds to a growing haul of prizes. Other winners include Starred Up and Of Horses and Men
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NewsAcademy selects foreign shortlist
Nine features advance to the next round of voting in the foreign language film category for the 86th Academy Awards from the original pool of 76 submissions - but Iran’s The Past, Saudi Arabia’s Wadjda and Israel’s Bethlehem are among the shock omissions.
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NewsUncut Nymphomaniac Vol I to premiere at Berlinale
The Berlin International Film Festival will present the world premiere of Volume I of the longer, uncut version of Nymphomaniac, out of competition.
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NewsBerlin unveils first Panorama films
John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary and new films by Michel Gondry, Kutluğ Ataman and Robert Lepage are to feature in the Berlinale’s Panorama strand, which will open with Jalil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent.
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NewsBenelux focus at When East Meets West
Benelux is the regional focus for Trieste’s fourth edition of its When East Meets West (WEMW) co-production forum (January 20-22, 2014) being held during the Trieste Film Festival.
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NewsBerlin's Perspektive strand selects six
The first six films for the 2014 Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme of the Berlinale include four feature films and two documentaries.
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NewsCineMart unveils 25 selections
New projects from Peter Webber, Naomi Kawase [pictured], Alessandro Comodin, Eran Kolirin are in the 2014 selection.
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NewsTop Balkan directors reveal struggles
Award-winning directors Danis Tanovic, Jasmila Zbanic and Srdan Golubovic have revealed stories of “corruption” and “sickness” in their local film industries.
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NewsNymphomaniac producer optimistic for European cinema
Danish producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen of Zentropa is “enthusiastic” for the future of European cinema – but doesn’t “give a shit” about the Danish film industry.
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NewsBerlin reveals competition titles
‘71, Life of Riley and Aloft selected. A Long Way Down, The Turning among Berlinale Special titles.
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NewsPhysician producers open to sequels
Beta sells other territories on the film based on Noah Gordon’s trilogy of books.
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NewsGerman-French fund backs Pitts, Sokurov
New films by Rafi Pitts [pictured], Alexander Sokurov, Benoit Jacquot and Volker Schlöndorff are among 12 projects backed by the German-French “Mini-Traité” Co-production Fund in 2013 with a total of over €3m.