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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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NewsThe Creatives unveils writers for second edition of Creative Connection workshop series
The selected writers include ‘Blush’ filmmaker Michal Vinik.
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NewsRuben Östlund criticises “embarrassingly uneducated” Swedish cultural policy
Östlund compared culture minister Parisa Liljestrand to Elon Musk.
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NewsJulie-Jeanne Régnault to leave as general secretary of European Film Agency Directors association
Exec has played a key role in European Union film industry policy discussions.
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NewsRuben Östlund’s ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’ starts filming, reveals additional cast
Double Palme d’Or winners’ latest kicks off production in Budapest.
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NewsAlexandra Lebret steps down as managing director of European Producers Club
Lebret has headed influential producers organisation since 2002.
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NewsCarla Simon, lldiko Enyedi titles among first recipients of Eurimages marketing support programme (exclusive)
Recipients also include Berlinale Competition feature ‘Yunan’.
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NewsDenis Lavant to star in Chilean ghost story ’Bloques Erráticos’ (exclusive)
French star plays the ghost of a cinematographer who breaks free after a century trapped within the glaciers of Patagonia.
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NewsBerlinale selection will “get people talking about vibrancy” of film, says Tricia Tuttle
Tuttle sought to navigate a path for 2025 edition where politics can be discussed but films can also be celebrated.
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NewsRevamped Czech Audiovisual Fund to back series and games as well as films
Estimates suggest CAF’s budget will increase by 35% to around €84m a year thanks to levies and investment obligations.
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NewsRotterdam Big Screen Competition title ‘Idyllic’ acquired for sales (exclusive)
The comic film depicts several generations of a dysfunctional family.
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NewsBerlinale book-to-screen pitches include graphic novel ‘Impenetrable’ about sexual dysfunction
Several genre titles among the 10 books selected for their film potential.
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NewsGoteborg’s Nordic Film Market includes new Lone Scherfig, Hlynur Palmason projects
Shahrbanoo Sadat, Kaltrina Krasniqi also have projects in the market.
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NewsItalian box office holds steady in 2024 as Disney takes distributor crown
Sleeper hit ’The Boy With The Pink Trousers’ was top local title of 2024, followed by Paolo Sorrentino’s ’Parthenope’.
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NewsDocumentary sales company Jambika Docs launches with three-feature slate (exclusive)
Company is run by Juan Solera and Jota Salinas.
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NewsEuropean Film Awards sets Athens as host city of 2027 ceremony
The awards are held every second year in Berlin and travel throughout Europe in the other years.
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NewsLocarno explores date shift forward to July from 2027
A-list festival says date change appears necessary “to respond to the challenges faced by the entire sector.”
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NewsFrench box office rises 0.5% year on year but remains 13% below pre-pandemic period
The top 10 films accounted for 32% of total ticket sales (57.9 million tickets) - the most in some 20 years.
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NewsUNIQA, Sarajevo Film Festival launch programme for female filmmakers
It is open to female-identifying filmmakers with projects connected to Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania and Montenegro.
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NewsRotterdam unveils 2025 Tiger and Big Screen competition line-ups
IFFR 2025 runs January 30 – February 9.