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FeaturesLocarno Pro 2025 aims to match private film financiers with emerging talent
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Features“Existential dread” is fuelling the genre boom says Fantasia festival head Mitch Davis
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FeaturesHow NYAFF is bringing “bizarre, weird and wild” Asian cinema to the US
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FeaturesLena Dunham on her slate, creative freedom and ‘Too Much’
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Features“It bowled us over”: Galway Film Fleadh heads on the vibrancy of Irish cinema
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