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All articles by Rebecca Leffler
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News‘The Ties That Bind Us’ wins best film at 2026 César Awards
Richard Linklater named best director for ’Nouvelle Vague’
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NewsFrench culture minister Rachida Dati resigns to focus on Paris mayoral race
Her replacement will be confirmed in the next few days.
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NewsCannes Film Festival names Park Chan-wook jury president
Best director winner will become the first South Korean to preside over Cannes jury.
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NewsWild Bunch France’s new CEO talks strategy shift as company heads into receivership
The proceedings do not affect Elle Driver, or the company’s activities outside France in Germany, Itay and Spain
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FeaturesCNC president Gaëtan Bruel on audience hunger for daring films
“Arthouse can become the new mainstream and France is leading the charge.”
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NewsLeyla Bouzid’s Berlin competition title ‘In A Whisper’ secures EFM deals
EXCLUSIVE: Playtime has secured EFM deals for key territories.
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News‘ChaO’ scores sales for Best Friend Forever and Studio4ºc
EXCLUSIVE: The animation is set in a near-future Shanghai where humans and mermaids co-exist.
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NewsBuyers fall for “re-divorce” comedy ‘What Is Love’ starring Laure Calamy
EXCLUSIVE: Ginger & Fed has secured key deals.
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FeaturesEFM 2026: 20 buzz titles from France
Screen highlights the buzz titles ready to entice international buyers at the 2026 European Film Market (EFM), which runs February 12-18.
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NewsParadise City confirms Nicholas Kaiser as head of acquisitions and coproduction
EXCLUSIVE: Kaiser joined the company in 2008.
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News‘The Testaments’ to open Series Mania festival as Forum set to focus on European alliances
The Lille event brings together international TV execs and European politicians.
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NewsCelluloid Dreams returns to EFM with slate headed by ‘Kyushu Moon’, starring Alba Rohrwacher
EXCLUSIVE: The French sales company is now run by Saliha Guemraoui.
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NewsMother-daughter comedy sequel ‘LOL 2.0’ starring Sophie Marceau woos buyers for Ginger & Fed
EXCLUSIVE: The film garnered an impressive 100,000 admissions on its first day of release on February 11.
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NewsLe Pacte boards ‘Mystik: The Stolen Cat’, starring Raphael Quenard
EXCLUSIVE: The offbeat romantic comedy is co-directed by Quenard with Azedine Kasri.
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NewsCoproduction Office boards Sergei Loznitsa’s Soviet Union doc ’Imperium’
EXCLUSIVE: The Ukrainian filmmaker is using archival footage to paint a visual picture of life in the Soviet Union.
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NewsAnthony McCarten’s ‘The Price Of Peace’ to star Guy Pearce, Jared Harris, Merab Ninidze
The drama is set during the 1945 Potsdam Conference and will begin production this summer in London.
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NewsMarche du Film head Guillaume Esmiol on the “complete overhaul” of online industry platform Cinando
The new-look site has launched in time for the European Film Market.
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NewsCoproduction Office takes on global sales rights to Julian Rosefeldt’s ‘Euphoria’
EXCLUSIVE: The feature version of the artist’s 24-channel film installation recently played at Goteborg.
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NewsCharades set to launch sales on Japanese animated feature ‘We Are Aliens’ at EFM
The tale of two unlikely childhood friends charted across three decades is the feature debut of rising filmmaker Kohei Kadowaki
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News‘Salvation’: first trailer for Emin Alper’s Berlin competition title
Set in a remote village high in the Turkish mountains, Salvation tracks the return of an exiled clan that reignites a decades-old land feud.