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All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 2
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NewsMona Fastvold's Venice Competition title ‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ boarded for sales
Mona Fastvold directs the feature, with Amanda Seyfried in the lead.
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NewsWhat were the buzzy films and major talking points at this year’s Edinburgh film festival?
This year marked the second edition under the leadership of director Paul Ridd and producer Emma Boa.
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News‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’, ‘Bad Apples’ among BFI London Film Festival 2025 competition lineup
This year’s competition features 10 films from 12 countries.
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NewsAbdolreza Kahani’s ‘Mortician’ wins £50,000 Edinburgh 2025 top prize
Kahani’s film has won the second Sean Connery prize for feature filmmaking excellence.
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NewsDominga Sotomayor’s ‘Limpia’ to open San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos 2025
The €35,000 prize will now be split between the majority producer, not director, and the Spanish distributor.
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NewsPaweł Pawlikowski’s ‘1949’ starring Sandra Hüller begins shoot for Our Films, Mubi
The shoot is underway in Poland, Germany and Italy.
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NewsCreative UK looks to New York City as it outlines vision of UK “freelance champion” role
The role will be appointed as part of the UK government’s creative industries sector plan, although it has yet to be determined if the role is paid or voluntary.
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News“I’d love to make a musical”: Kevin and Andrew Macdonald on career ambitions and the projects that got away
The brothers were talking at an in-conversation event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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NewsSho Miyake’s ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ wins Golden Leopard at Locarno 2025
Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter’s ‘White Snail’ was another key winner.
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FeaturesWhy Sepideh Farsi’s childhood in Iran compelled her to make Gaza doc ‘Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk’
The Cannes ACID premiere is now screening at the Edinburgh film festival.
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FeaturesHow Urska Djukic has become a filmmaker to watch with her debut feature ‘Little Trouble Girls’
The Berlinale premiere is now screening at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
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NewsBFI, Film4’s high-budget shorts programme Future Takes greenlit for second iteration
EXCLUSIVE: Six films will be award between £60,000 and £90,000.
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NewsUK scholar and filmmaker Laura Mulvey awarded BFI Fellowship
Mulvey wrote the seminal feminist essay ‘Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema’.
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NewsEFM partners with Montreal’s Frontières Market for genre showcase
The collaboration will begin in 2026.
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NewsLuxembourg shoot underway for Stephen Korytko debut ‘Dead Dad Girl’ from ‘Corsage’ producer Samsa Film
EXCLUSIVE: Samsa Films produces alongside Belgium’s Wrong Men and ‘Silicon Valley’ co-creators.
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NewsPrince Charles Cinema eyes second London venue
The cinema has put in a bid to take over and reopen what was the Stratford Picturehouse in east London.
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News‘We Live In Time’, ‘The Salt Path’ lead UK independent titles at local box office 2025 halfway point
The overall market share for UK independent titles was down compared to January-June of 2024.
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NewsSkydance Media closes $8bn merger with Paramount; David Ellison promises a “tech-forward company”
Skydance Media CEO David Ellison is now Paramount chairman and CEO.
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NewsUK feature film production spend takes small dip in first half of 2025
High-end TV production spend, however, was up by 18%.