All articles by Melanie Goodfellow
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NewsFrench genre start-up Wild West unveils 12 new projects at Bordeaux event (exclusive)
Wild West was created by Wild Bunch International and Capricci last year to foster French-language genre content.
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NewsWild Bunch International posts fresh deals on Cannes title ‘Holy Spider’ (exclusive)
Iran-set serial killer drama draws buyers worldwide following buzzy world premiere in Competition at Cannes.
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NewsCannes Marché du Film’s incoming director Guillaume Esmiol talks 2022 comeback edition
Incoming market head talks enticing professionals back to the Palais, plans for the future and potential price hikes.
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NewsCannes attendees jubilant over return to physical market as business returns
Final figures show there were 12,872 professionals accredited to the market as it returns to full strength.
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NewsSaudi Arabia’s Telfaz11 pacts with France’s Easy Riders on four-picture slate
Telfaz11 was at the forefront of Saudi Arabia’s YouTube content revolution of the 2010s and is now pushing into cinema.
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News“It’s not a comeback film”: former French rap star Diams talks Cannes bio-doc ‘Salam’
Bio-documentary is co-directed by ex-rapper Melanie Diams, ‘Divines’ director Houda Benyamina and writer Anne Cissé.
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NewsFeaturistic Films, WTFilms re-team on survival thriller ‘Cold Meat’ (exclusive)
Downton Abbey star Allen Leech plays a man battling for survival in a blizzard in the Colorado Rockies.
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NewsColombian teen drama ‘The Pack’ scoops top Cannes Critics’ Week prize
UK director Charlotte Well’s buzzed-about debut Aftersun also features among the prize-winners.
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NewsReservoir Docs posts first deals on ‘Goya, Carrière And The Ghost Of Buñuel’ (exclusive)
The documentary revolving around French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière world premiered at Cannes Classics
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NewsMPM serves up territories for culinary ‘Umami’ starring Gerard Depardieu (exclusive)
The Paris-based company is planning a special physical market screening in Tokyo on June 1 for Japanese buyers.
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NewsFrench give “loss of habit’ as key reason for not going to cinema post-pandemic
National Cinema Centre study probes ongoing 30% shortfall in cinema admissions a year after theatres reopened.
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NewsMad Solutions takes MENA rights to Soudade Kaadan’s ‘Nezouh’
It is Kaadan’s second feature after The Day I Lost My Shadow, which won Venice’s Luigi De Laurentiis Award for best first film in 2018.
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NewsVytautas Katkus’s ‘The Visitor’ wins Critics’ Week Next Step project prize
The prize is connected to the parallel section’s Next Step programme helping directors move from shorts to features.
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NewsKimStim acquires Berlinale Encounters winner ‘Unrest’ (exclusive)
Paris-based Alpha Violet handles international sales on period drama exploring the birth of the anarchist movement in a Swiss valley.
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NewsOmar El Zohairy’s ‘Feathers’ sweeps Critics’ Awards for Arab Films
167 film critics from 68 countries voted on the awards organised by the Arab Cinema Centre.
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NewsFrance’s forgotten comic book super-heroes set for Marvel-style revival (exclusive)
French talent agent Florent Lamy has optioned rights to slew of French superheroes such as the Mikros trio, L’Archer Blanc and Epsilon.
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NewsMarion Cotillard gets behind impact film production company Newtopia
New company spearheaded by filmmaker Cyril Payen and producer Magali Payen has three productions in development.
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News‘Yomeddine’ director A.B. Shawky signs for Saudi feature ‘Sea Of Sands’ (exclusive)
Saudi-Egyptian co-production revolves around the special bond between a young Bedouin orphan and a camel.
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Newsmk2 films posts early deals on buzzy Un Certain Regard title ‘Corsage’ (exclusive)
Vicky Krieps as the 19th-century Empress Elisabeth of Austria, affectionately nicknamed Sisi, as she turns 40.
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NewsTF1 Studio boards ‘Funny Birds’ starring Catherine Deneuve, Andrea Riseborough and Morgan Saylor (exclusive)
Martin Scorsese is executive producer on second feature from LA-based French directorial duo Hanna Ladoul and Marco La Via.